ERCOT Pilot Program: 80 NW virtual power plant

What is happening? This week ERCOT approved a virtual pilot program that will begin in 2023. The pilot program will allow customers with solar panels and storage batteries to store surplus electricity and sell it back to the grid when demand is high.

Why is this important? Grid forecasting & how to include the growing volume of storage batteries into the electricity market. It is the result of the quarterly report of the the aggregated distributed energy resource pilot task force.

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