A new smart energy partnership between the UK's Octopus Energy and the US's Voltus is set to address the surge in electricity demand across US data centres

The deal will add residential assets to Voltus’s portfolio, expanding options for data centers in key markets.

Virtual power plant operator Voltus and energy firm Octopus Energy will partner to aggregate residential flexibility across four major power markets.

Will deliver initiative across the PJM, MISO, New York, and California grids

“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).

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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.