Hype aside, virtual power plants are breaking through
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Virtual power plants were always doomed to fall into clean tech's notorious hype cycle.
There are plenty of reasons for that, but start with the name. 'Virtual power plant' means everything and nothing all at once. Then there's the origin story—one rooted in the far-less-sexy, and decades-old concept of demand response. Round that out with projections that utilities could save as much as $35 billion in just 10 years by embracing VPPs and you have the makings of a hype cycle even green hydrogen can't reach.
But VPPs are proving to have staying power. Federal…
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