Canary Media: More States Look to Virtual Power Plants to Fight Rising Electric Bills

As utility bills continue to rise nationwide, Canary Media reports that an increasing number of states are utilizing or considering virtual power plant (VPPs) programs as an energy affordability solution. United’s Chloe Holden encouraged lawmakers to move quickly and invest in smart, robust VPP legislation that supports multiple distributed energy resources (DERs), leverages traditional demand response, and provides reasonable but ambitious deployment timelines.