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Happy US Independence Day! And a special thank you to our staff and customers supporting the electric grid across the country, during this very warm holiday week. 💪 💙❤️

New research from RMI - Meeting Summer Peaks: The Need for #VirtualPowerPlants (VPPs). Due to unprecedented load growth, increasing extreme weather events, and changing power supply, regulators and utilities need easily deployable, diverse, and affordable solutions to support a more reliable and affordable grid. VPPs' flexibility, affordability, deployment speed, and ability to support grid resilience can optimize existing infrastructure to address near-term and long-term grid needs. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gCuUV2Tb #distributedenergyresources #cleanenergy #climatetech

Sometimes progress towards climate goals happens rapidly, other times gradually. In the case of NYISO's DER Participation Model, it's a gradual move that's supporting the important goal of reaching 70% renewables on the grid by 2030 on a tight timeline. If you're enrolled in a #demandresponse program in NYISO or are considering it, here's what you need to know to make the best decision for your business: 👉 The DER Participation Model provides DERs with access to more market opportunities, potentially increasing revenue for participating organizations. 👉 The aggregation threshold has been reduced to 100 kW (10 kW per DER), offering DERs more access to cash-generating market opportunities. 👉 Factors like your load profile, curtailment capabilities, response times, and site locations will significantly impact your earnings under the new model. Moreover, there are only 3 approved DER aggregators that can provide access to this new opportunity for your business. Voltus stands out as the sole approved DER aggregator with extensive experience in NYISO's ancillary market. Additionally, we offer a simple platform to help you understand your DR performance, forecasted and actual earnings, and real-time energy usage. For more insights, check out our latest blog by Angel Fernandez Amores, our NYISO Energy Market Director! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at info@voltus.co. #NYISO #DistributedEnergyResources #DemandResponse #VirtualPowerPlants #RenewableEnergy https://lnkd.in/g7PFmf2c

Happy #PrideMonth from Voltus! At Voltus, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion while driving the clean energy transition forward. We are committed to creating a workplace where EVERYONE feels valued and respected. Let's continue to champion equality and drive positive change in our community and beyond. 💪💚💙

Thank you Congressman Sean Casten and Senator Richard Durbin for introducing the REDUCE Act highlighting how important it is to make access for #demandresponse and #virtualpowerplants more equitable across all US states. Aggregated #DR resources have brought thousands and thousands of MW to market where states alone did not. Now, it's more important than ever to allow these resources to bring economic relief and grid reliability to states seeing unprecedented load growth and rising electricity prices. These are also not small savings amounts we're talking about. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) VPP Liftoff Report (thank you Jen Downing and Jigar Shah!) highlights how deploying VPP capacity is urgently needed to address meet growing peak demand and save Americans billions. So why should local businesses and consumers in some states benefit from this and not others? I can't come up with a good reason. Hopefully the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will now open a rulemaking to fix this inequity once and for all. PS: "REDUCE" stands for: Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy. So true. https://lnkd.in/gPT9H95D #energytransition #DR #DERs #VPPs #Order2222 Neil Chatterjee

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920 aims to address long-term transmission system planning across the US in a bid to improve grid resilience and reliability. But former #FERC Chairman and Voltus's Chief Regulatory Officer, Jon Wellinghoff argues that by addressing transmission planning in isolation, FERC has made little progress on resolving the grid resilience issue in a satisfactory way. “The most important thing is that in resolving Order 1920, this will now allow the Commission to turn to the most important issue facing this country - demand side resources and FERC Order 2222.” Read the full article below. #distributredenergyresources #virtualpowerplants https://lnkd.in/gAs2TvSF

Utility Dive interviews Voltus SVP of Growth, Dan Svejnar and Resideo Grid Services General Manager, David Oberholzer about our new residential smart thermostat #virtualpowerplants in PJM Interconnection ComEd and NYISO PSEG Long Island LLC. We're enabling residents to participate in wholesale power markets while adding much needed, flexible demand-side resources to help make the grid more resilient. https://lnkd.in/g67rMmMx #distributedenergyresources #demandresponse #virtualpowerplant

Checkout Voltus and our CEO, Dana Guernsey featured in the San Francisco Examiner. The article explains that while electricity demand is rapidly growing, the building of new power plants and transmission infrastructure is time-consuming and costly. Many energy planners are concerned that solar power alone can't solve the issue. Enter companies like Voltus. Voltus is dispatched to help manage the intermittency associated with renewables, along with emergency events and load growth associated with #EVs and #electrification. “We need to add more capacity because we are moving things into the electric sector that didn’t used to be there. We exist to make sure that that load growth can happen," says Dana Guernsey. https://lnkd.in/eVEEeUSt

We’re at it again with our partner, Resideo! Today we announced TWO new residential smart thermostat #virtualpowerplants in PJM Interconnection ComEd and NYISO PSEG territories to support a more reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric grid. This news comes after launching a demand response program last year that connected Ameren Illinois customers directly to Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) for the first time ever! https://lnkd.in/dffqMffC #virtualpowerplant #demandresponse #distributedenergyresources

"Cost, carbon, complexity - the rising C's (pun intended)," are hot topics during today's Future of Energy Series, according to Voltus's CEO, Dana Guernsey. We heard from Michael Bryson of PJM Interconnection, Mark Lauby of North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Carrie Zalewski of American Clean Power Association (ACP), and Jon Wellinghoff, former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman. Thank you to our amazing audience and Voltans for attending and participating in today's discussion. Recording coming soon!