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Energy verified Verified Outcome TRL 9

Residential Virtual Power Plant (VPP)

domain Client: Regional Utility handshake Provider: Tesla / Enphase schedule Deploy: 2018-Present
94 Impact
Enterprise Ready
Evidence Score: 5/10
Strength: Very High

Executive Summary

ANALYST: COI RESEARCH

Aggregation of thousands of residential home batteries (Powerwalls) into a unified grid asset that can be dispatched during peak demand events to avoid purchasing expensive peaker plant energy.

rate_review Analyst Verdict

"The blueprint for the decentralized grid. Instead of building a gas peaker plant for the 5 days a year of peak load, the utility rents the batteries sitting in customers' garages. It lowers costs for everyone and improves resilience."

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warning The Challenge

Utilities face massive costs during peak demand events (e.g., heatwaves) when they must buy power on the spot market or run expensive peaker plants. Building new capacity is costly and utilized rarely. Meanwhile, customers wanted backup power for outages but found batteries expensive.

psychology The Solution

Launched a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program. The utility subsidizes the cost of the home battery (e.g., Tesla Powerwall). In exchange, the utility gets the right to discharge the battery into the grid during peak events. The homeowner gets backup power during outages, and the utility gets a distributed, clean 'power plant'.

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Integrations
DERMS
Deployment Model
Program / SaaS
Data Classification
Grid Edge Data
Estimated TCO / ROI
Incentive Payments
POC Summary ( to )

"N/A"

shield Risk Register & Mitigation

Risk Factor Severity Mitigation Strategy
Customer Opt-out Low Contractual override during emergency.
Comms Failure Medium Cellular backup.

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Audited value realization curve

$3M+ annual savings for ratepayers Verified Outcome
Primary KPI4,000+ batteries enrolled
Audit CycleDisplaced need for fossil fuel peaker usage

policy Compliance & Gov

  • Standards: Public Utility Commission
  • Maturity (TRL): 9
  • Evidence Score: 5/10
  • Data Class: Grid Edge Data

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Verified Case Study
PDF • Version 1
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Technical Audit
PDF • Audited
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The "Blind Verification" Protocol

How we verified these outcomes for Regional Utility without exposing sensitive IP or identities.

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1. Raw Evidence

Audit ID: #PRIV-690
Evidence: Direct SQL Logs
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2. Verified Asset

Outcome: Verified
Ref ID: #COI-690

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