OhmConnect’s VPP model with Matt Dusterberg

Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

OhmConnect is a virtual power plant (VPP) provider and helps balance the electricity grid. Will incentivize people to reduce usage at certain times.
VPP definition of OhmConnect“Collection of 100s or thousands of devices that they are controlling all independently, but coordinating in a fashion that the grid can see it.”
Topics covered:
SunPower relationship
Demand Response
Thermostat control
TV control
Fridge control
Looking at VPP as reducing demand rather than increasing supply
Getting paid to take stuff offline
Rewards
Virtual currency
Gift cards, prizes
Smart plug
Grid stability
NEM 3.0
Resource adequacy
CCAs (Community Choice Aggregation)
Blackouts
Negative energy
DSGS (demand side grid support)
Power and energy
kWh
705.13 Energy Management Systems
Power Control Systems
UL 916
FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) Baselines
Bitcoin Mining
Pacific Gas and Electric
Clean Power San Francisco
Deregulated Grid
ISO = Independent System Operator
Leveraging smart meter data Text messages Google, Honeywell, Sinse Grid stability Leveraging new asset (energy usage)
Moss Landing ESS DOE report need for 160 GW of storage Curtailing $1 Billion per year of solar energy in CA 4 wheeled ESS Value of discharging devices back into grid
120V Lithium-ion battery assisted induction stove
Moduly small stand-alone battery unit
www.moduly.io
Smarter E
Intersolar
2024 Year of the VPP
Matt Dusterberg
www.OhmConnect.com
100% clean energy for everyone
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