{"id":131219,"date":"2024-06-07T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/power-plants-in-homes-us-cities-seek-to-speed-green-transition\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:05:11","slug":"power-plants-in-homes-us-cities-seek-to-speed-green-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/power-plants-in-homes-us-cities-seek-to-speed-green-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Power plants in homes \u2013 US cities seek to speed green transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131219\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWhat Auden Schendler calls the &#8220;Dr. Seuss machine&#8221; in his garage not only safeguards his home from the power outages that regularly strike his neighbours in the Colorado mountains, but in his view also helps others in his community and beyond.&#8221;We have mudslides, fires, stores, ice storms, and the power goes down. But not my power,&#8221; Schendler, 53, told Context.<\/p>\n<p>Schendler says his home in Basalt, Colorado, is in many ways unexceptional, but, he says, it has a superpower. &#8220;I have a 1960 ranch house, but it&#8217;s equipped like a modern green building, with solar, an EV charger, batteries and more,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My house is how we grapple with the climate problem.&#8221; Schendler had the three large batteries installed under a new programme offered by his local utility, with the cost to be paid back over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the utility, Holy Cross Energy, is allowed to access the energy in those batteries to feed into its network, and for each use Schendler gets paid a fee.That is the idea of the &#8220;virtual power plant&#8221;, or VPP, which is generating excitement as a way to build resilience into the electrical grid, speed the transition to renewable power, and even offer customers a way to make money.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy is to harness new &#8220;smart&#8221; appliances and battery technologies, as well as household renewable-energy generation, to help consumers avoid energy use during high-intensity times, such as a particularly hot day, and even to draw energy back onto the grid as needed. The United States currently has about 30 to 60 gigawatts of VPPs deployed, while the Energy Department says capacity could triple by the end of the decade \u2013 a key way, it said last year, to meet the country&#8217;s goal of 100% clean energy by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado, Holy Cross Energy also sees its VPP as a central way to achieve its goal of 100% clean energy by 2030.&#8221;We&#8217;re on the front edge of a transformational change,&#8221; said Bryan J. Hannegan, president and CEO of Holy Cross.Hannegan said the VPP underscored a changing role for utilities, which had to become more like orchestra conductors. &#8220;Every home, business or community can now generate their own power. Our job is to get it from where it&#8217;s being generated to where it wants to be consumed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Trying to get all of these resources to play together nicely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/green-cities\/power-plants-in-homes-us-cities-seek-to-speed-green-transition\">Context<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/power-plants-in-homes-us-cities-seek-to-speed-green-transition\/\">Power plants in homes \u2013 US cities seek to speed green transition<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3587,5643,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-131219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-green-transition","tag-usa","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}