Date: November 2024

Each year, more utilities are developing virtual power plants (VPPs) — grid-integrated aggregations of distributed energy resources — to maintain and enhance grid reliability, resilience, safety, and affordability. VPPs can be configured to meet changing grid needs because they can flexibly provide multiple grid services (also known as “value stacking”). This workshop will cover the utility VPP adoption journey and discuss the evolution from a single-service VPP (often peak shaving, today) to a multi-service paradigm. This session will: Introduce a six-step process for developing a VPP that is included in VP3’s VPP Flipbook, a collection of 14 VPP utility case studies and their implementation takeaways Showcase utilities and partners at various stages of their multi-service VPP journey, and hear about how they developed their VPPs, lessons learned, and future trajectories Discuss barriers to deploying and scaling multi-service VPPs in a diversity of states and regulatory contexts, and near-term opportunities.

Speakers:
Paul Wassink, National Grid
Mary Tobin, Rocky Mountain Institute
Brittainy Pond, Puget Sound Energy
Corey Benson, Uplight
Shawn Grant, PacifiCorp
Kari Montrichard, BC Hydro
Blake Richetta, Sonnen
Dan Cooper, EnergyHub