Virtual Power Plants: The Shape of the Modern Grid

Join Applied Economics Clinic (AEC) and Todd Olinsky-Paul, Senior Project Director at Clean Energy Group (CEG), Wednesday, May 13 at 11 a.m. EDT for a presentation providing an overview of the state of the art in VPPs including program design, state policy, grid benefits and basic economics.

Todd works on CEG’s Resilient Power Project in the areas of solar+storage for critical infrastructure energy resiliency, distributed energy storage policy and economics, and is the CEG/CESA lead for state energy storage policy support. He also directs CESA’s Energy Storage and Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP) project, which aims to accelerate large scale electrical energy storage deployment through collaborative efforts between state energy agencies, US DOE Office of Electricity and Sandia National Laboratories. His recent work has focused on supporting state energy storage program and policy development, particularly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with independent research and analysis in the areas of energy storage with equity, virtual power plants, battery storage as an efficiency measure, policy best practices, interconnection barriers and energy storage benefit-cost analysis. Todd holds an M.S. in Environmental Policy from Bard College and a B.A. from Brown University.

This presentation is part of AEC’s Energy, Environment, and Equity Forum.