Turing test-inspired tool compares virtual power plants to gas peakers

Abstract

Dive Brief: EnergyHub, which provides software for managing distributed energy assets, has released two tools for virtual power plant developers, operators and users: a testing framework to compare their performance to traditional generators and a five-level “maturity model” to address capability gaps. Paul Hines, EnergyHub’s vice president of power systems, said in an interview that Level 4 VPPs could be ready for commercial deployment in “years, not decades.” [...]Level 2 resources are partially autonomous, capable of integrating into centralized economic dispatch unit commitment systems or self-dispatching based on signals like day-ahead market pricing, EnergyHub said.