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Phillips: Duke Energy manages one million customers and 2.5GW in summer capacity
“We have a million customers who participate in our programs with us. We've got two gigawatts across all the utilities in the winter and two and a half in the summer.”
Insight
Phillips: Grid operators only need reliable parameter forecasting from VPPs
“As long as it's repeatable and reliable forecasting of how long, how much notice do I have to give it, because everything has notice, how long can I run it, And then, what do I need to know about it afterwards, and when can I run it again? That's what they nee…”
Insight
Phillips: VPPs require energy management system integration for power plant parity
“I've talked to our energy control center director around, like, what would it take for us to be integrated into the energy management system? Where, you know, is that what this looks like when you actually have parity with power plants? And the answer is yes. …”
Disclosure
Phillips: Duke Energy activated almost all winter programs during cold snaps
“And during those two weekends, we called almost all of our winter programs.”
Disclosure
Phillips: Duke Energy built a 45 MW battery VPP in 18 months
“Brought together the partnerships with aggregators like Energy Hub, as well as our local trade allies and other stakeholders who were interested in that. And 18 months later, we've got 45 megawatts of it, and it's a great program.”
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Phillips: Duke Energy has one million field switches, mostly one-way
“People make fun of me because we have a million switches in the field. And the vast majority of them are one way.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Phillips: Running load switches for one hour prevents customer churn
“If I look at my level zero switches, and I don't mind calling them level zero a couple years ago, we would run them for three or four hours at a time, and customers would get very hot. Now we run them one hour at a time, and customers don't leave the program f…”
Disclosure
Duke Energy's VPP capabilities are at Level 2 maturity
“Well, I only know my utilities very well. And I'd say we are like a strong level two. And as you heard before, obviously we've got a lot of devices in zero and one.”
