"I have a 1960 ranch house, but it's equipped like a modern green building, with solar, an EV charger, batteries and more," Auden Schendler says. "My house is how we grapple with the climate problem."
His utility is allowed to access the energy in those batteries and for each use gets paid a fee.
That is the idea of the "virtual power plant", or VPP, which is generating excitement as a way to build resilience into the electrical grid and speed the transition to renewable power.
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