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How do we get more smart device customers to participate in virtual power plants? Leap's data shows that reducing sign-up friction is one of the most effective levers we can pull. Leap has seen traditional opt-in demand response programs enroll less than 10% of eligible devices, while thoughtfully designed default enrollment models can achieve participation rates as high as 95%. Check out my Latitude Media op-ed to see how participation can be effortless, but never mandatory. With clear communication, meaningful customer benefits, and simple ways to opt out or skip events, we can bring millions more connected devices onto the grid. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/gQRYhk4M

FERC recognizes that smart meter "data blocking" distorts wholesale markets! Yesterday, FERC granted our complaint with Voltus against PJM in which we allege the OATT violates the Federal Power Act because it obligates market participants to provide smart meter data, but utilities do not make such data available. PJM utilities have spent $8.9 billion on smart meters, yet VPPs are prevented from accessing that information to bring down power prices, even when customers WANT to participate. In other words, "We wanted VPPs and all we got was death by a thousand PDFs." FERC is finally starting to get it! Utilities nationwide spent over $31 billion on advanced meters, so NYISO/MISO/ISONE, take note. Major kudos to the Voltus team for doing the heavily lifting, and also CPower Energy for helping build the foundation many years ago. https://lnkd.in/gTiMenY6

We're excited to announce AmpVerve's strategic partnership with Leap ⚡ AmpVerve has signed a grid services partnership with Leap, a leading US platform for building and scaling virtual power plants. Together, we are bringing AmpVerve's intelligent energy orchestration platform to US grid markets, beginning in California. Commercial and industrial sites across the state already hold significant flexible capacity across EV fleets, battery storage, HVAC and cold storage. Much of this capacity remains disconnected from grid markets and generates no flexibility revenue. This partnership creates a route to change that. ➡️ AmpVerve orchestrates and dispatches EVs, batteries and building loads around operational requirements and market signals ➡️ Leap provides the market access that connects eligible flexibility to California grid programs, with an initial focus on CAISO Capacity, Day-Ahead Energy and the Emergency Load Reduction Program ➡️ Asset owners gain access to new revenue opportunities from compatible infrastructure already installed at their sites, while supporting grid reliability Mohsin Hassan, Founder and CEO of AmpVerve: "Commercial and industrial sites already contain substantial energy flexibility, but much of it remains fragmented and unmonetised. Together with Leap, AmpVerve can turn that flexibility into a coordinated, measurable and commercially valuable grid resource. California is where we begin, not where we stop." We are now onboarding our California launch cohort, with the first sites targeted for Q4 2026. Thank you to Corey Bentine, Shaun Tamblin and Caroline Thompson and the wider Leap team for making this partnership possible. Active in the UK. Scaling in the US. 🇺🇸 #VirtualPowerPlant #DemandResponse #CAISO #EnergyFlexibility #EVFleets #CleanEnergy .

For years, California’s wholesale market rules have prevented behind-the-meter batteries from realizing their full potential. I've been working to change those rules for 10+ years, and we're finally seeing movement. To date, CAISO has effectively treated any energy exported from an individual customer site as if it never reached the grid. That left valuable capacity — and an important revenue opportunity for battery providers — on the table. CAISO just released its draft final guidelines to allow batteries to get paid for exporting energy to the grid, via Track 1 of its Demand and Distributed Energy Market Integration (DDEMI) initiative. Under the new framework, individual customers can have their battery exports counted towards demand response performance, as long as the aggregation as a whole doesn't become net export to the grid. Leap has spent years advocating for exactly this kind of mechanism, and it’s extremely encouraging to see California take a significant step toward market rules that properly value the capabilities of customer-sited batteries. For our storage partners, especially residential, this opens a new revenue stream that wasn't accessible before. For California, it means activating real and fast-growing capacity...California alone has over 3 GW of customer-sited storage. As markets everyone are working to accommodate electrification, data center growth, and extreme weather, this is a critical untapped resource. Target implementation is 2027, and we're continuing to push for enhancements to the framework in CAISO's stakeholder process. Stay tuned for more, and thanks CAISO Board and Western Energy Markets Governing Body for inviting me to Folsom to speak about this yesterday. Let's get this over the line and grow this critical resource. CC Andrew Campbell Elliot Mainzer Anna McKenna Anja G. Allie Mace