Google plans big virtual power plant in energy-strapped PJM grid

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media at 22 Oct, 11:30 UTC

Google just upped the ante on its plans to leverage thousands of homes’ energy use to free up space on the grid for data centers. The tech giant and the California-based firm Voltus announced Thursday that they are going after a gigawatt of virtual power plant capacity in PJM Interconnection, the…