Bombay: VPPs will resolve localized grid bottlenecks within 5 to 10 years
Jay Bombay · AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants · Nov 16, 2023 · at 54:44
Jay Bombay of Leap discusses the future trajectory of virtual power plant dispatch capabilities on the distribution grid.
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“I think VPPs have quite a unique role to play in helping alleviating those very localized pain points. And we're not even there right now. We're just talking system wide capacity is pretty much like the limit as to how much VPPs have been able to contribute in a meaningful way. But I think that's going to go very like local and very granular, very real time by the time we get to five to 10 years.”
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