Tag: VPPs

  • SunPower offers VPP option for California customers via OhmConnect

    SunPower launched a new virtual power plant (VPP) offering for its customers across California via OhmConnect. Homeowners in select locations with solar and SunVault battery storage can connect with OhmConnect directly through the mySunPower app to earn rewards for managing their electricity use during periods of peak demand. SunPower and OhmConnect’s VPP helps homeowners make money……

  • Sunnova, David Energy launch virtual power plant in Texas

    Sunnova Energy International teamed up with David Energy, a software-driven retail energy provider in Texas, to bring its Adaptive Retail energy plan to the Texas marketplace, which taps Sunnova SunSafe solar and battery storage systems to create a virtual power plant (VPP). “Our Adaptive Retail plan represents a significant departure from the traditional centralized power……

  • VPP software provider Shifted Energy closes $4.3M funding round

    Shifted Energy provides utilities, property managers and owners of multi-family housing with distributed energy resource (DER) control and monitoring systems, machine-learning data analytics, and dispatch optimization software. Shifted Energy’s platform essentially creates virtual power plants. This is a complex part of the renewable energy market that is growing in importance. “We started Shifted Energy with……

  • Home solar + storage is really a sale of software

    Installers face a difficult task in educating and selling a solar + storage system to a prospective residential or commercial customer, but that task is becoming much more manageable, thanks to an evolving host of software programs and integrated software suites. “New and evolving solar and storage economic variables are going to make it very……

  • Wallbox integrates with AutoGrid to link with utility EV charging programs

    EV charging and energy management specialist Wallbox is now working with AutoGrid, a top provider of virtual power plants (VPPs) tech, in a new partnership that will make utility-driven EV charging programs more accessible for customers. Through the partnership, Pulsar Plus, Wallbox’s home EV charger, will be integrated into AutoGrid Flex. “All Wallbox chargers are……