AutoGrid has expanded its partnership with Puget Sound Vitality (PSE), Washington state’s largest utility, on a digital energy plant (VPP) answer constructed on the AutoGrid Flex platform.
PSE and AutoGrid started working collectively on a VPP in 2021 to offer a centralized utility for enrolling, dispatching and assessing the efficiency of particular person and mixed packages throughout PSE’s portfolio. The partnership is now increasing to offer aggregation monitoring, reporting and buyer administration for all taking part packages, empowering PSE to reinforce grid reliability and obtain its targets of decarbonization.
The complexity of managing the vitality grid by means of the clear vitality transition includes balancing renewables with reliability and making certain a steady vitality provide even within the face of various circumstances.
The AutoGrid Flex platform manages over 8 GW of digital energy crops in 9 international locations. With the superior demand response and DER administration capabilities supplied by AutoGrid Flex and its community of OEM companions and aggregators, PSE will be capable of dispatch adequate capability to mitigate system peaks in each summer season and winter seasons.
PSE’s VPP goals at decreasing prices whereas sustaining dependable vitality provide to its greater than 1 million residential and enterprise prospects. Moreover, the VPP answer permits taking part prospects to obtain financial incentives for sharing property with the grid and/or curbing utilization, serving to the utility effectively handle growing electrical energy demand.
“That is an thrilling partnership for PSE as we work towards our renewable vitality targets whereas sustaining protected, dependable vitality for our prospects,” says PSE’s Aaron August. “With AutoGrid, we’ll be capable of interact our prospects like by no means earlier than to make use of vitality as effectively as potential, as a result of the cleanest type of vitality is the vitality you don’t use.”
“AutoGrid is honored to affix forces with PSE to display the ability of harnessing distributed vitality assets to create a clear, extra resilient, and cost-effective grid,” provides AutoGrid CEO Ruben Llanes. “Our partnership won’t solely assist PSE obtain its targets however set an ordinary to collectively speed up progress towards a sustainable vitality future.”
