In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Rusty Haynes, senior manager for research and industry strategy with clean energy advocacy group the Smart Electric Power Alliance, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the new “50 States of Virtual Power Plants and Supporting Distributed Energy Resources” report describing the growth of legislative and regulatory policy work on VPPs across the US in 2025.

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