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Committee considers bill to scale virtual power plants for utilities to meet rising demand
Summary
Representative Kraft presented legislation to require investor‑owned utilities to procure a portion of peak capacity via virtual power plants (VPPs), prompting support from the Department of Commerce and solar advocates and questions from utilities about costs and implementation details.
Representative Kraft introduced a bill directing investor‑owned utilities to target a portion of their peak capacity to be satisfied by virtual power plants (VPPs), a distributed aggregation of rooftop solar, batteries, smart appliances and demand response that can be dispatched like a conventional resource.
The bill sets a target (the draft language described a 10% peak resource target) and directs the Public Utilities Commission to establish tariffs and implementation rules, while offering an off‑ramp if targets prove infeasible. Kraft described VPPs as a way to avoid costly transmission upgrades and provide…
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