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Origin’s virtual power plant now as big as a coal power station

Ben Potter
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Origin Energy has claimed bragging rights over rival AGL for the largest virtual power plant in Australia – and perhaps the world – as it outlines the strategies it is deploying to manage the rising shares of intermittent wind and solar energy in the grid.

Virtual power plants are aggregations of customer-owned energy resources such as solar panels, home batteries, electric vehicle chargers, air conditioners and other sources of heavy demand that can be commandeered by a retailer with the customer’s consent during grid squeezes to avert blackouts and moderate prices.

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Ben Potter writes on energy, climate change and innovation, and has been Washington correspondent, opinion editor and companies editor. Connect with Ben on Twitter. Email Ben at bpotter@afr.com

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