For utilities and other power providers without the time and resources to build or buy software and develop multi-asset VPPs on their own, AutoGrid’s turnkey VPP offering is a game-changing option.

This paper discusses the simultaneous management of active and reactive power of a flexible renewable energy-based virtual power plant placed in a smart distribution system, based on the economic, operational, and voltage security objectives of the distribution system operator.

This report presents a high-level summary of the demand flexibility initiatives currently underway in Australia; outlinig four key pathways operating to incentivise demand-side participation. The report overlays this information on the ARENA-funded and external trials in detailed charts and tables.

Project Symphony’s final report presents the 18 recommendations found whilst assessing the viability of DER orchestration. These actionable recommendations are highlighted through the framework of four ‘pillars’. This being Technical, Customer, Value, and Policy & Regulation.

This report, New Resource Adequacy Criteria for the Energy Transition: Modernizing Reliability Requirements, outlines the need for, and a path toward, the use of a multi-metric criteria approach in resource adequacy analysis.

The virtual power plant market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $2.35 billion in 2023 to $2.86 billion in 2024 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9%. The growth during the historic period can be largely attributed to the expansion of renewable energy sources, advancements in energy storage technology, government support and incentives, the initiation of pilot projects and demonstrations, as well as the increasing decentralization of energy systems.

How VPPs enable utilities and their regulators to reliably and affordably manage summer peaks.

Türkiye’s rooftop solar potential is close to ten times its current installed solar capacity - enough to meet 45% of electricity consumption.

A new study prepared for Google by energy analysts from The Brattle Group explores the cost and ability to serve critical resource adequacy needs from an emerging resource: virtual power plants (VPPs). These distributed energy resource (DER) portfolios – which can include technologies such as rooftop solar, smart thermostats, smart water heaters, electric vehicles, and distributed batteries – are actively controlled by utilities and energy service providers to benefit consumers, the power system, and the environment.

This review paper describes the significant economic, social, and environmental benefits of VPPs, as well as the technological advancements, challenges, and possible future research directions in VPP research.

How aggregating distributed energy resources can benefit communities, society, and the grid.

Assessment of Strategy and Execution for 16 Companies

As Australia surpasses three million rooftop solar installations, households looking to buy a battery storage system or electric vehicle can be part of a new kind of power plant bringing about faster, cheaper decarbonisation. In the future, so-called ‘virtual power plants’ that harvest distributed renewable electricity and demand response will play a major role, says a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

VPPs have been lauded as a major part of the future energy mix in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM). When the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) announced its VPP demonstrations project in 2019, AEMO predicted there could be 700MW of VPPs by 2022.

Traversing a prolonged period of development, the energy industry has reached the landmark of Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and still going onward to this newfangled energy network, also can be called the next generation VPP. This paper demonstrates the challenges and opportunities in executing the transpiring aspects of the next generation VPP.

Residential solar panels and battery backups are becoming more and more popular as efficiency rises and costs sink. This explosion in distributed solar makes a new idea possible: virtual power plants, or a smart network of individual solar panels that can act like a big power plant when electricity is needed most. And as extreme weather threatens many communities, this idea is arriving in the nick of time.

As distributed energy resources (DER) continue to proliferate, so do the reliability challenges associated with smaller, diverse, and dispersed assets now populating the world’s aging grid infrastructure.

Constrained by low capacity and volatility, the rapid growth of distributed energy resources are obviously slowdown resulting in consumption difficulty and investment obstacle. As an effective integration and management technology, virtual power plant (VPP) becomes a suitable cornerstone of renewable energy future development. Based on current scientific research, this study intends to provide a detailed review of VPP from an internal perspective (e.g. energy resources’ integration and operation) to the external aspect including participation in electricity market.