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Focusing on a Key Value Proposition for the Smart Grid
As renewable power and energy from multiple distributed resources come online, utilities face new challenges - and opportunities. The ability to coordinate and control a group of separate, yet related, distributed energy resources as if they were a single entity - thereby creating a virtual power plant (VPP) - allows utilities to effectively optimize and forecast demand response and DER inputs. Although VPPs are still developing and the market is currently fragmented, some believe they have the potential to become the ultimate value proposition for the smart grid.
The Virtual Power Plants Online Summit 2012 on Thursday, July 26 is a one-day, 100% online event designed to help utilities understand and capitalize on the opportunities afforded by this emerging technology. Through a series of in-depth presentations, case studies, and interactive Q&A sessions, participants will examine such issues as:
- Bringing together demand response and distributed energy generation
- Role of the smart grid in enabling DER and VPPs
- Coordinated management of distributed energy resources
- Defining components and characteristics of the virtual power plant
- Supply-side and demand-side VPPs
- Clarifying the virtual power plant business model and roadmap
- Standards progress and needed developments for VPP adoption
- Regulatory developments affecting the VPP model
- Using VPPs and microgrids to achieve efficiencies and new revenue generation
- Wholesale auction and mixed-asset VPPs
- Opening the grid architecture to accommodate VPPs
- Renewables integration and the VPP
- Integration of VPPs and the existing grid
- The use of electric vehicle resources in the VPP
- Capacity and revenue forecasts for VPPs worldwide
- Future potential of VPPs in the smart grid energy mix
Who Should Attend?
- Utility executives, smart grid project managers, and engineers
- Communication network managers and IT directors
- IT system and software developers and managers
- System integrators and consultants
- Demand response providers
- Regulatory and public policy makers
- Investors and financial community professionals
A Highly Interactive, Global Networking Experience
The 100% online format of the Virtual Power Plant Online Summit enables industry professionals from around the world to attend sessions easily and conveniently. Powered by the Cisco WebEx platform, the format of the Online Summit ensures interaction among attendees and presenters, for a unique, cost-effective, and in-depth learning experience. To learn more, click here.
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