Featured in Women at work – 08-2019

VPPs as congestion buster

Two related challenges have become barriers to increasing penetration levels for rooftop solar: the hosting capacity of the grid, and the need to maintain stability during periods of peak demand. The Future PV Roundtable, held alongside The smarter E event in Munich, looked at how distributed energy resources such as PV and battery storage, along with demand-side flexibility, can help to meet these challenges – all thanks to VPPs.

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Jonathan Gifford

20 Aug 2019

The Future PV panel at Intersolar 2019 discussed the policy settings for VPP implementation, along with future tariffs and remuneration models for the technology. | Image: pv magazine/Julia Malcher

Lior Handelsman addressed the crowd from the stage. “This is not the future, this is the forming reality,” enthused the SolarEdge founder. “And there is value here for everyone.” Handelsman, whose full title is VP of marketing and product strategy, was addressing the Future PV Roundtable at Intersolar Europe in late May. Handelsman described the …

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