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| Source: Electric Power Research Institute A graphic of a sample virtual power plant (VPP). |
The greenest power plant of the future may be one that is already built and can be found in many communities.
Virtual power plants, VPPs, are clusters of small, distributed energy sources across a certain area — whether it’s rooftop solar panels, small wind farms, fuel cells or even back-up generators that are idle most of the time — that are yoked together via software and operated as a single power plant.
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