Guernsey: Virtual power plants deploy faster and cheaper than new gas plants
Dana Guernsey · The new wave of DERs · Oct 2, 2025 · at 37:52
Voltus CEO Dana Guernsey discusses the Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) model for data centers with host Shail Khan.
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“It absolutely should be more affordable if the alternative is going out and building a new natural gas power plant. For one, not only are you going to, like, open up the catalog and see that it's backordered till twenty-twenty, or sorry, not twenty-twenty, twenty-thirty, whatever which is a problem you know, like, That's on hold for many years, but they're expensive, and so it should be more affordable, quicker, which is what everybody wants right now, and more sustainable, kind of better for the community, so it's just checking all those boxes.”
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