Texas leads VPP adoption with deregulated market

Texas is uniquely suited to adopt virtual power plant (VPP) technology due to its competitive, deregulated market. Its success highlights the "perverse incentive" of vertically integrated utilities in other US states to make capital expenditures without discretion to raise profits. From pv magazine USA Texas has a unique electric grid. Its grid operation organization, ERCOT, is independent of other states and deregulated, making the state open for business for a market-based approach toward energy generation and transmission. Texas has been a favorite among utility-scale solar PV developers for ...

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