The aggregation imperative

Grid operators across the United States face an unprecedented dual challenge of surging electricity demand from data centers and frequent extreme weather events. These grid strains are forcing a structural shift in the US energy market, and decentralized generation capacity aggregated under virtual power plants (VPPs) is entering the mainstream. As demand for electricity ramps up in the United States, the pace of grid infrastructure expansion is proving too slow and too capital-intensive to meet the moment alone. Instead, a regulatory and technological shift is transforming millions of distributed ...

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