Virtual Power Plant (VPP): Best Practices & Principles

A Virtual Power Plant (VPP), also known as a Distributed Power Plant, is a network of decentralized energy sources — like solar panels, home batteries, and smart devices — that work together to generate, store, and manage electricity. It is a system of thousands of smaller devices that are aggregated, and they work together and function much like a traditional power plant, supplying electricity when it’s needed most and helping ease demand on the grid.

SEIA’s Virtual Power Plant best practices and principles are largely modeled off the successful
Connected Solutions programs that have been operating in the northeast for many years. SEIA has filed testimony on VPPs in multiple states, including: Arizona, Illinois, Nevada and Colorado.