“We started leaning into complexity as a strength. The rules change, customers change, markets change, and instead of fighting that we decided to design for it. We wanted adaptability to be our superpower.”

In this Energy Changemakers episode, host Elisa Wood sits down with Voltus's Adam Scarsella, to explore a new approach to accelerating data center interconnection: Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC).

Three leaders who are reshaping how distributed energy resources (DERs) and virtual power plants actually work at scale

Voltus's CEO Dana argues that demand response is already proven to work reliably at scale in PJM, and it's more economically efficient for data centers to contract flexible capacity from aggregators like Voltus than to build their own isolated power plants.

Voltus and Mission:data filed a complaint at FERC against eight PJM utilities for blocking residential demand response by not sharing interval data.

Voltus and Mission:data continued to make their case that data access is preventing PJM from tapping into residential demand response.

Data centers want to connect to the grid faster. Voltus says virtual power plants can help them do so — and cut costs for everyday utility customers.

Tesla, Sunrun, Voltus and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners are involved in the effort.

Voltus, a virtual power plant operator and distributed energy resource platform, recently announced the launch of its "Bring Your Own CapacityTM" product, which it said is a first-of-its-kind solution designed to accelerate data center development by leveraging existing flexibility on the grid.

Voltus's CEO explains how DERs have evolved from an emergency tool to a true grid resource.