Event - Webinar Series on Virtual Power Plants
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The session, planned on February 24 2026, will be part of a new webinar series convened together with Integrate to Zero “From concept to reality: Accelerating the development of Virtual Power Plants”, accessible virtually on Zoom.
The main objectives will be to explore the main current deployment challenges – from the regulatory environment to technological hurdles and financing – as well best practices and lessons learned from pioneers.
The series is designed to identify what it takes to make VPPs work on the ground in different regions of the world.
Setting the Stage
Electricity systems are quickly evolving, no longer defined solely by power plants and transmission lines. Across the world, energy is increasingly produced, stored, and consumed at the edges of the grid. Rooftop solar panels now sit atop homes and factories, batteries are becoming commonplace, and electric vehicles are quietly turning into mobile energy assets. These distributed energy resources are quietly but fundamentally changing the energy landscape.
Yet a central question remains: how can thousands of small, decentralised systems owned by different individuals and businesses be coordinated in a way that strengthens the grid rather than complicates it?
Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) offer one of the most convincing answers to date. VPPs connect dispersed energy resources via a digital platform, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning for predictive energy generation and consumption analytics, and complex algorithms to dispatch energy to thousands of endpoints under management simultaneously.
This central control system allows them to operate as a single, flexible network. For consumers, this opens the door to active participation in energy markets, and becoming “prosumers”. For utilities and system operators, it offers a way to access flexibility without relying on new fossil-based infrastructure. While the promises are clear, the reality, particularly in emerging markets, tends to prove more complex. About the session
The first webinar of the series, “Demystifying Virtual Power Plants: Models, Enablers and Early Experiences” draws directly on pilot projects supported by BASE and Integrate to Zero in Latin America, as well as Octopus Energy pioneering work in the United Kingdom, where the company orchestrate one of the world’s largest residential virtual power plants.
