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What Google’s virtual power plant in PJM says about the race for electricity

Voltus CEO Dana Guernsey compared new “bring your own new capacity” contracts to the power purchase agreements that “revolutionized” utility-scale solar and wind development.

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Voltus CEO Dana Guernsey compared new “bring your own new capacity” contracts to the power purchase agreements that “revolutionized” utility-scale solar and wind development. An agreement by Google to fund a 100-MW virtual power plant in the nation’s biggest regional market signals the emergence of distributed capacity as a valuable resource amid tightening power supplies, industry sources say.

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