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Shape Load Perfectly, Inject Energy Optimally with Sonnen’s Blake Richetta

Sonnen’s Blake Richetta on virtual power plants in Texas, crediting Arushi as one of the people who drove the state’s ADER program.

Texas Energy & Power

In brief

Virtual power plants, thousands of rooftop solar systems and home batteries added together, can rival medium-sized power plants, support the grid and keep customers powered through outages. Doug Lewin talks with Blake Richetta of Sonnen about the VPPs already working in Texas and how the federal budget bill would make them harder to build. Richetta credits Arushi as one of the people who drove Texas’s ADER program.

Key points

  1. 01How VPPs add capacity, support the grid and keep homes powered through outages.
  2. 02What the federal budget bill means for VPPs in Texas.
  3. 03Arushi, credited with helping drive Texas’s ADER program.

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