Comments on: LevelTen Energy launches web platform for PPA pricing transparency https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/08/levelten-energy-launches-web-platform-for-ppa-pricing-transparency/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/08/levelten-energy-launches-web-platform-for-ppa-pricing-transparency/#comment-134185 Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:43:28 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=99572#comment-134185 The claim of supplying information to buyers and sellers I’m skeptical of at first blush. I can see this working at the wholesale energy level between large utility purchases and large generation facilities serving the wholesale energy market. With aggregate VPP programs from small residential and small businesses can become problematic with issues of “avoided costs” of having a distributed ESS and generation resource as aggregate energy on demand. Do you credit this small but aggregated composit as a much larger generation resource at the wholesale price or do you allow emergency capacity charges and standby charges that can be upwards of $2,000/MWh or $2/kWh in 15 minute intervals along the grid? Overall electric utilities are going to have to find a way to partner and compensate those thousands, hundreds of thousands to perhaps millions of residential and small businesses that will have solar PV and smart ESS in the near future.

The bottom line on all of this, LevelTen energy is looking to insert itself in the revenue stream in energy generation, storage and dispatch. When the technology available now allows adopters of the technology, solar PV, smart ESS and maybe even wind generation to remove the middleman from the daily energy use stream. This is where YOU make money not the corporate opportunists.

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