Boulder has been chosen to host Xcel Energy Colorado’s upcoming demonstration of a “virtual power plant” concept. Typically, energy utilities build bigger, centralized power plants that run on coal, ...

VPPs tap into everyday home technologies, including solar panels and batteries, by transmitting excess stored energy to the ...

An energy experiment three weeks ago involving some 2,800 Bakersfield homeowners and roughly 100,000 others across California may point to a new way of keeping the lights on during times of peak ...

Residents in Boulder, Colo., are likely to become key players in an invisible power plant moving from the drawing board to virtual reality since the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $12.7 million ...

BANDERA — When the electricity went out in his neighborhood in early December, Tom Cook’s lights didn’t even flicker. Four ...

Over the past decades power grids have undergone a transformation towards smaller and more intermittent generators – primarily in the form of wind and solar generators – as well as smaller ...

Hot Texas summers continue to push peak demand for electricity to new heights as the population and economy grows, more data centers are built and EV adoption increases. The state’s monthly energy ...

Some lawmakers and advocates hope to harden Michigan’s electric grid and cut utility bills by adding new power plants, all without moving a single shovelful of dirt. How is that possible? The state ...

Picture an all-electric home with smart appliances that talk to each other via WiFi to figure out when to pull power from the grid. That’s the idea behind something called ‘virtual power plant’ ...

Tens of thousands of homes equipped with rooftop solar and home battery storage in California and Texas are linking up in the latest examples of a growing and innovative energy solution called the ...

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single ...