A New Era in Power: The Promise of Virtual Power Plants

Matt Marxby Matt Marx (guest post), , 1 Comment

Distributed energy resources with storage are being aggregated and managed by SMA using ennexOS, the award-winning cross sector energy management platform. 

A New Era in Power: The Promise of Virtual Power Plants

Distributed renewable energy resources bring a variety of benefits to the electrical grid. However, they also increase complexity due to their intermittent nature. The addition of battery storage can help offset that intermittency while allowing system owners greater self-consumption of their onsite power generation.

But with this distributed network of renewable energy storage systems, how do utilities manage an effective flow of electricity throughout their network while maintaining price and grid stability?

The solution is the Virtual Power Plant enabled by SMA technology.

Tags: ,

This article was published in 2019. As we are constantly developing our solutions, there may be newer or additional options for the tips and techniques in this article.

1 reply
  1. William Saylor
    William Saylor says:

    Matt, Good summary of what a VPP is. You probably know that this term, VPP, was originally used by Encorp in ~2000 and we actually started some VPPs at that time before the company floundered. Good luck with this concept and business line,
    Bill

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>