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How Can Utilities Get the Biggest Bang for their EV Buck? EV Telematics!

community renewable energy assets. How EV’s Shift Peak Demand Times When it comes to charging existing private vehicles, many people often choose to charge their EVs during peak demand times,…

The Evolution of Rooftop Solar Panels

…1839 when physicist Edmond Becquerel observed the photovoltaic effect, a process that generates a current in a cell through exposure to sunlight. Becquerel’s research inspired further study, which led to…

What’s Cookin’ in our Kitchens this Thanksgiving (Spoiler: Turkey)?

The Virtual Peaker team plans to take some well-deserved time off to celebrate all things Thanksgiving, from turkey to stuffing. We’ll close our laptops and open our ovens to savor…

Team Q&A: Chelsey Lawton – Office Manager/Assistant Controller

…Virtual Peaker has allowed me to spread my wings. While working with companies like Sargento and Harley Davidson I was able to adapt my skills in both the accounting side…

Top 7 Reasons To Attend Virtual Peaker’s Innovation Forum

…Become a world-class innovator. For the third year in a row, Fast Company named Green Mountain Power one of the top 10 most innovative energy companies in the world. Find…

The Ghost of Utility Infrastructure Past

…with more generators, compressors, pipes, wires, poles, transformers… the list goes on. But these changes to utility infrastructure are costly, as electric companies assume both high economic risk to fund…

Managed Charging Isn’t Just For Urban Areas Anymore

…reliability? Rural EV Adoption For many reasons, it may come as no surprise that EV adoption has remained low in rural areas. That adoption is in part because of the…

Achieving More Demand Flexibility Requires Mastering the Resource Planning Process

…is economically inefficient. Customers with a very high value of lost load, such as hospitals, are grouped with customers of a comparatively negligible value of lost load, such as unoccupied…

Betsy Engelking Talks Renewable Energies, Load Balancing, & Transmission

Since 1988, Betsy Engelking has worked in the energy sector. She got her start working as a regulator at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission before tenures at Great River Energy…

Ask An Expert: The Fundamentals of Virtual Power Plants & Where They Might Go Next

…what actions devices can take are only limited by the communication infrastructure and functionality in components. For example, inverters could inject some solar power generation as reactive power (which helps…

Team Q&A: Katarina Struckmann – API Product Manager

…My most recent role was as a product manager for a near-real-time streaming data platform that analyzed complex systems of interconnected devices, which has translated well to working with data…

Team Q&A: Amber Mullaney – Vice President of Marketing

…the Forbes Communications Council, which has enabled me to build relationships with marketing and communications leaders from around the country across all sorts of industries. I’m excited to bring those…