Expanding Solar with Virtual Power Plants, Microgrids and Local Storage
“There is a general consensus that we've got an energy problem coming in Washington State,” Cascadia Renewables co-founder and managing partner Markus Virta said. We have to be very intentional about where solar goes, where energy storage goes, and those distributed energy resources.What we're looking at, Markus said, is creating utility systems with communication over all of our energy assets and can actively balance supply and demand via the virtual power plants (VPP).