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\"Customer-Powered<\/p>\n

The steadily declining costs of solar, wind, batteries, EVs and other key technologies\u2014borne by market forces and big policy initiatives like the Inflation Reduction Act\u2014seem all but certain to transform America\u2019s energy system from one primarily reliant on oil and gas to one that is increasingly electrified and renewable\u2014a process often referred to as the energy transition.<\/p>\n

To make this energy transition a smooth one, policymakers are increasingly clamoring for grid flexibility: resources that can quickly respond to rapidly changing conditions to keep the grid in balance. Grid flexibility will continue to come in several forms; but distributed, demand-side solutions\u2014dubbed DERs (distributed energy resources) and VPPs (virtual power plants)\u2014are gathering more and more interest, from town halls and statehouses all the way up to the White House.<\/p>\n

And believe it or not, if you are a demand response participant, you are a valuable component of the nation\u2019s fleet of DERs and VPPs.<\/p>\n

In a new whitepaper<\/a>, Mathew Sachs, CPower\u2019s Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development, and I break down what is driving this growing need for grid flexibility; what all these new terms mean (in plain English) and how they relate to more-familiar concepts like demand response, capacity and energy; and why this creates significant long-term opportunity for energy users in what \u00a0we call the Customer-Powered Grid\u2122.<\/p>\n

We aimed to keep this short whitepaper informative, constructive to the latest research and policy work, and with your \u2018so what?\u2019 in mind. Ultimately, we wrote it to start a conversation with you.<\/p>\n

The energy transition is already in motion, but the smoothness or rockiness of this massive shift\u2014compounded by an aging grid and extreme weather\u2014is an open question. It\u2019s a question that CPower wants to work on with customers, policymakers, grid operators, utilities and other key stakeholders to resolve for our common safety and prosperity.<\/p>\n

We hope you\u2019ll give the whitepaper a read, and reach out at vpps@cpowerenergymanagment.com<\/a> with thoughts, comments and questions.<\/p>\n

Read our full whitepaper to learn more: Creating the Customer-Powered Grid\u2122: Enabling the Energy Transition with Distributed Energy Resources and Virtual Power Plant<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nBen Pickard
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\nBen Pickard manages strategic M&A and new growth initiatives for CPower as its Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior, Ben was a Director at National Grid, where he developed and executed strategic applications of venture-backed technology to some of the utility company\u2019s most challenging problems; as well as non-regulated distributed energy investments and partnerships including with EnerNOC, Enbala and Sunrun, and scaled entry into renewable project development via Geronimo Energy.<\/p>\n

Earlier roles include infrastructure principal investing with the Macquarie Group, urban climate policy with the Clinton Foundation and distributed energy business creation spanning lighting retrofits, rooftop solar, energy storage, and backup generation. His market and policy analysis on electric utilities has appeared in Greentech Media and the New York Times. Ben is based in New York City and earned an AB magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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