“ When we completely electrify California and we eliminate all gas, that load will become almost three times as much equaling the whole western United States system, we will go from about 60,000 to 160,000 MW. So, the paradigm that we are going into, the way I see it, is that the high-voltage grid that will require dozens of super high-voltage transmission system that needs to be added in California, it needs to have a partner from the distribution system that, with all these variable load centers, with all of our customers that have the minimum, the solar, the battery and an EV in their locations, the distribution system that used to be grid to distribution, a one-way highway, one-way traffic that goes from high-voltage lattice towers, transmission lines to poles in our streets. It used to be one way, now we are going into a world that is bidirectional. The distribution system is becoming a resource to the grid and the VPP is the single most effective impactful resource for this future. So that we need to make sure that we are not overburdening the grid by overbuilding and yet the grid needs to take into account what is distribution doing.”
Diving into the Future of Virtual Power Plants
Attribution: Art Hunter