Comments on: Enphase inks Texas VPP deal with Octopus Energy https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/01/enphase-inks-texas-vpp-deal-octopus-energy/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/01/enphase-inks-texas-vpp-deal-octopus-energy/#comment-139167 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:56:41 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=101039#comment-139167 “With Kraken Flex, Octopus Energy’s proprietary software platform for managing, controlling, and optimizing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), Octopus Energy plans to create a Virtual Power Plant with the Enphase home battery systems, and will be bidding these DERs in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) ancillary markets, a first of its kind for these assets.”

A local or regional CCA by any other name. Octopus seems to be appropriate though. Inserting itself into the flow of energy provides Octopus with the opportunity to siphon off some of the value of energy generated by non-fueled solar PV resources in an aggregate manner.

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