Date: November 2025

Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) are leading the way on virtual power plant (VPP) innovation by prioritizing community needs, climate goals, collaboration, and long-term stability. This session highlights how inter-CCA cooperation is shaping smarter, community-focused programs. Presenters will share lessons from three CCAs at different stages of their VPP journeys, from early-stage design to large-scale deployment. Ava Community Energy (Ava) will discuss its SmartHome Charging program—targeting 10,000 EV enrollments—and a forthcoming solar and storage incentive targeting 5,000 homes. San Diego Community Power will showcase its Solar Battery Savings program, which supported over 1,600 homes and deployed more than 2,200 batteries, reducing 7.2MW in peak load. Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE) will present its forthcoming VPP, procured jointly with Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), that will aggregate 50+ MW of multi-DER dispatchable capacity from customer-sited resources through a mix of existing and newly created programs.

Speakers:
George Penny, Lunar Energy
Forrest Csulak, Ava Community Energy
Emily Fisher, San Diego Clean Power
Peter Levitt, Peninsula Clean Energy