Foundations of Real-Time Dispatch & Fitting VPP and Load Flex in Operations
A thinkpiece to bring together Flexibility with SCED, Control Room Operations, and Reserve Management Across U.S. Power Systems.
In this article: Foundations on grid operation layers nationwide in diverse utility areas, and explanation of the significance of the California VPP event (July 28-29 2025). The output was consistent and called explicitly as a coordinated reliability contribution, demonstrating that aggregated behind-the-meter storage can function like a dispatchable po…