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States adopt rules treating customer batteries and solar as grid power plants

Rule Changes

Operates Puerto Rico's transmission and distribution system

For most of the twentieth century the U.S. power grid moved electricity in one direction: from large central plants to homes and businesses. A Pew Charitable Trusts report released April 28 documents how twelve states and Puerto Rico have now written rules letting aggregated rooftops, batteries, water heaters, and thermostats be dispatched together as a single power plant. The category has a name—virtual power plant, or VPP—and for the first time it is moving from utility pilots into mainstream state regulation.

Updated 4 hours ago