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Distributed Energy Resource

What is a Distributed Energy Resource (DER)?

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are small-scale, decentralized power and storage technologies like rooftop solar, batteries, and smart home devices like […]

Syd Bishop 1
Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
How To Develop (& Scale) Water Heater Demand Flexibility Programs

How To Develop (& Scale) Water Heater Demand Flexibility Programs

Electricity demand is climbing faster than it has in decades, driven by electrification, AI data centers, extreme weather, and a […]

Virtual Peaker Team
Virtual Peaker Team
EV Telematics

What is EV Telematics?

Globally, electric vehicles account for around 25% of all new car sales; those very same electric vehicles provide challenges and […]

Syd Bishop 1
Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
Substation-Level Storage: When to Build vs. When to Orchestrate BTM Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)

Substation-Level Storage: When to Build vs. When to Orchestrate BTM Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)

Rising electric demand is forcing utilities to make a capital-intensive decision: pour money into new infrastructure like substations, transformers, and […]

Amber Mullaney
Vice President of Marketing
peak shaving

What is Peak Shaving?

U.S. electricity demand is growing faster than it has in generations. The EIA forecasts electricity use will climb 1% in […]

Rachel Sanford
Rachel Sanford
Marketing Coordinator
BESS & the Duck Curve: Leveraging DERs to Manage Peaks

BESS & the Duck Curve: Leveraging DERs to Manage Peaks

The duck curve, the duck-shaped chart showing the difference between electric-demand and the amount of available photovoltaic solar available throughout […]

Syd Bishop 1
Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
DERMS 2

What Are Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS)?

A distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) is the software layer that lets a utility see, group, and dispatch thousands […]

Syd Bishop 1
Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist
How to Future-Proof Your Virtual Power Plant (VPP)

How to Future-Proof Your Virtual Power Plant (VPP)

An aggregation of distributed energy resources (DERs), virtual power plants (VPPs) have become a critical component of U.S. load flexibility. […]

Virtual Peaker Team
Virtual Peaker Team
Demand Response

What is Demand Response?

Demand response is a more than 40-year old demand flexibility strategy that involves shifting demand to off-peak periods of usage. […]

Sydney Hughes, Marketing Intern
Sydney Hughes
Marketing Intern
Smart Water Heaters & Demand Flexibility: What Utilities Should Know Before Launching a Program

Smart Water Heaters & Demand Flexibility: What Utilities Should Know Before Launching a Program

Water heaters are quietly becoming one of the most valuable tools in a utility’s demand flexibility toolkit. Because they store […]

Virtual Peaker Team
Virtual Peaker Team
virtual power plant

What is a Virtual Power Plant?

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of distributed energy resources (DERs) including rooftop solar, home batteries, electric vehicles, […]

Greg Ledva, R&D Engineer
Greg Ledva
R&D Engineer
What is Firm Load Shedding?

What is Firm Load Shedding?

Firm load shedding is the deliberate, controlled disconnection of “firm” customer load, which is the electricity service utilities are contractually […]

Syd Bishop 1
Syd Bishop
Senior Content Specialist

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