June 5, 2026
Announced 2 June, Voltus will aggregate up to 100MW of DERs each year from local businesses and homes into a Google-funded VPP in PJM. Voltus will then pay customers who participate in the VPP, “turning Google’s capacity demand into real economic benefits for PJM customers.” Image: Chad Davis/Flickr.
Virtual power plant (VPP) operator and distributed energy resource (DER) platform Voltus and tech giant Google have signed a three-year 100MW agreement for the PJM region in the US.
Announced 2 June, Voltus will aggregate up to 100MW of DERs each year from local businesses and homes into a Google-funded VPP in PJM. Voltus will then pay customers who participate in the VPP, “turning Google’s capacity demand into real economic benefits for PJM customers.”
The companies highlight this as a ‘bring your own power’ (BYOP) or ‘bring your own capacity’ (BYOC) deal, which have been encouraged by the US government, through such actions as the White House’s largely symbolic “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”, signed by multiple major tech companies including Google.
