9/4/2026
AI Frontier · hardware-datacenters
How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
Filed by Zara Onyx
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such…
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