On the latest Factor This Policycast episode, United’s Emma Heins, Sunrun’s Bart Jackson, EnergyHub’s Maxwell Burke-Scoll, and Alliant Energy’s Kari Gehrke discuss what it takes to scale virtual power plant and other distributed energy resource programs. This episode extends a conversation that began at DTECH’s 2026 Reliability & Resiliency Conference in Chicago and covers utility partnerships, market design, customer enrollment, dispatch performance, interconnection, and compensation.