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# Investor-Owned Utilities
INVESTOR-OWNED UTILITIES
**Next-Generation Virtual Power Plant Solutions for Investor-Owned Utilities**
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With escalating peak demand, rising energy prices, and aging infrastructure, IOUs face a grid that is struggling to adapt. These challenges lead to costly inefficiencies and reliability risks.
Our all-in-one Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform transforms these challenges into opportunities by giving IOUs a powerful tool to modernize, scale and future-proof the grid.
**The All-in-One VPP Solution for Utilities that Solves Operational, Financial, and Strategic Needs of a Modern Grid**
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* Operational
* Financial
* Strategic
### Boost Operational Efficiency
Manage increasing load growth while seamlessly integrating and coordinating various distributed energy resources (DERs) with reliable output year-round. Quickly scale programs to manage load growth and renewables, delivering reliable flexibility at every level of the grid.
### Cost-Effective Alternatives
Reduce the need to build expensive peaker plants and defer infrastructure upgrades. Our VPP software provides investor-owned utilities (IOUs) with a cost-effective way to manage peak demand and ensure grid stability.
### Modernize the Grid
Built to scale and modernize the grid, our solutions help IOUs meet decarbonization and clean energy goals, and enhance customer engagement to build a more sustainable energy future.
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We’re empowering modern utilities to accelerate grid modernization using the friendliest distributed energy resources platform on the planet.
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“Virtual Peaker, the platform provider it is, is critical. As we look ahead, you know we’ve been doing a really good job at doing demand response, reducing peaks. We’re starting to move now to we need to be able to shape what the load looks like on a day-in and day out basis. The Virtual Peaker platform is going to be key to helping us get there.”
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**Josh Castonguay**
VP & CIO, Green Mountain Power
Virtual Peaker brings deep expertise in grid-edge DERMS, forecasting, and customer engagement technology. Our platform is not just a technology; it’s a strategic asset that empowers utilities of all sizes to meet modern energy demands, achieve sustainability goals, and ensure reliable, cost-effective service for their customers.
**Ready to Transform Your Grid?**
Discover how Virtual Peaker can address your unique operational challenges and unlock new revenue streams.
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