My electricity provider’s Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program accepted us a few weeks ago. I just got the signup bonus payment and have already supplied grid power for 9 events from battery power.
This won’t pay the full cost, but certainly is a nice bonus to go with the solar panel output.
(For programmed events we get paid $0.50/kwh supplied up to an annual limit, whilst buying power at $0.17 - or free from the solar in the sunnier months)
I guess I have VXLAN point-multipoint tunnels working in VPP. The cool thing is, I am at 39000ft over the Atlantic right now.
eVPN/VxLAN gets closer every day! Take a look at https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/45221 to see what I got so far #vpp
A reminder to check your power plan.
I just switched from one big power co to another.🤦
Surprisingly, it's a much better plan for me, despite higher kWh costs. I'm fully solar, almost zero imports & lots of exports—I benefit most from lower daily & higher export rates. There's a connection fee, but I'll easily recover that.
Cheaper plans are available, but not with a decent feed in, unless I cede battery control to a VPP. I'm not ready for that yet. Maybe next year. 🤷
Texas company adds 40+ distributed storage systems to home state grid.
#texas #renewableenergy #renewables #energy #energystorage #storage #vpp #powerplants #virtualpowerplants #investors #investing #finance #sustainable #sustainability
Texas company adds 40+ distributed storage systems to home state grid.
#texas #renewableenergy #renewables #energy #energystorage #storage #vpp #powerplants #virtualpowerplants #investors #investing #finance #sustainable #sustainability
@electrek
There are certainly all sorts of reasons not to like or trust Tesla (or perhaps specifically Musk), but ideological purity tests shouldn't blind us to the positive potential.
There are already almost 1/4 million Tesla vehicles in the UK that represent a theoretical battery pool of almost 18 GWh. Realistically in practice about a tenth might be available at any point in time.
That's an order of magnitude more than typical large grid batteries.
La Conselleria trasllada al jutjat la informació sobre empadronaments a Les Naus i beneficiaris de les VPP
@Cronica_CT 👇 #VPP #AlacantLa conselleria diu que s'han detectat empadronaments a l'entorn de Les Naus que no corresponen a beneficiaris de les VPP La Generalitat Valenciana ha comunicat al jutjat d'Alicante que investiga les suposades irregularitats en la adjudicació de les vivendes públiques de la Playa de Sa...👇
https://www.cronicacampdeturia.org/2026/02/la-conselleria-trasllada-al-jutjat-la.html
Networking should be open. 🌐
We’re building AsterNOS-VPP to prove that you don’t need proprietary "black box" hardware to get line-rate routing performance. By combining #EnterpriseSONiC with #VPP (Vector Packet Processing), we're moving packet handling out of the slow kernel and into the fast lane.
🚀 High throughput
🔓 No vendor lock-in
🛠️ Runs on x86/ARM/Whitebox
Check out the architecture:
#OpenSource #Networking #FOSS #VPP #SelfHosted #TechFreedom #MastodonTech
And this is the first time (that I know of anyway) that anybody has done eVPN/VxLAN with Bird2 controlplane plugin, and using a VPP dataplane!
It's alive! Article upcoming, wow I learned so much! :) #vpp
Tom Fakes (he/him)
IPng Networks
thefathippy
Tina M Casey
Tina M Casey
mmalc
cronicacampdeturia.org
Asteraix Open Networking
Marek Zarychta 
