Virtual Power Plants: Essential Infrastructure for Grid Transformation

How Kitu Systems Enables VPP Deployment at Proven Scale

This white paper explores how Virtual Power Plants have become essential infrastructure for grid transformation, addressing the converging pressures of renewable integration, electrification, and climate change that are reshaping utility operations. Our technology offers utilities and aggregators a clear path to deploy VPPs as dispatchable capacity that replaces expensive peaker plants and defers traditional infrastructure investments.

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Executive Summary

The American electric grid stands at an inflection point. As renewable energy sources proliferate and extreme weather events stress aging infrastructure, utilities and grid operators face an urgent challenge: how to maintain reliability while decarbonizing. Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) have emerged as a critical solution, enabling distributed energy resources (DERs) to act as cohesive, dispatchable capacity that can replace traditional peaker plants and enhance grid resilience.

Kitu Systems stands at the forefront of this transformation, providing a software platform that makes VPPs not just possible, but practical and profitable for all stakeholders. This white paper explores the VPP landscape, the challenges facing the industry, and how Kitu's platform is positioned to accelerate the transition to a flexible, resilient, and sustainable grid.