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Canary Live Boston: Watch the event on Thurs., April 6 at 6:00 PM ET
We're broadcasting our event live from Greentown Labs in Somerville, Mass. this week.
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California’s patchwork push to scale up virtual power plants
The state has created more ways for solar-and-battery-equipped homes to get paid to help the grid — but not enough to save the crashing rooftop solar market.
By Jeff St. John .
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Inside a $110M plan to turn NYC apartments into virtual power plants
Logical Buildings and Keyframe Capital are behind the push to help multifamily buildings earn money from cutting energy use and curbing CO2 emissions.By Jeff St. John .
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Sunnova seeks $3.3B DOE loan guarantee to expand virtual power plants
An SEC filing suggests the federal Loan Programs Office is gearing up to help lower-income households access rooftop solar and batteries that can help the grid.By Jeff St. John .
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Puerto Rico's first community-led microgrid is ready to launch
The Adjuntas microgrid project is a high-profile example of how Puerto Ricans are devising solutions to the island's fragile and unreliable electricity system.By Maria Gallucci .
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Batteries
Itochu quietly assembled a gigantic home battery network in Japan
The conglomerate controls a 36,000-unit virtual power plant. Up next? Unleashing it to help the national grid decarbonize.By Julian Spector .
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This startup turns electric water heaters into grid batteries
Shifted Energy is tapping water heaters in lower-income communities to create virtual power plants that help balance the grid, starting in Hawaii.By Jeff St. John .
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Inside the software running Sunrun's home solar-battery fleets
Virtual power plants are only as good as the software that controls them. Here's how Lunar Energy is making the most of Sunrun's grid potential.By Jeff St. John .
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PG&E is testing different flavors of virtual power plant
What's the best way for home batteries to help ease summer grid stress? This California utility is trying out two different models with Tesla and Sunrun.By Jeff St. John .
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Want your home to help the grid? These startups are making it happen
Homes that respond to signals from the grid could play a pivotal role in the clean energy transition. But getting customers on board isn't easy.By Julian Spector .
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Texans can now sign up for virtual power plant to help grid, make money
Tesla, Octopus Energy and other power retailers are offering customers compensation to use their solar and batteries to make the grid more efficient and clean.By Julian Spector .
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