In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Michael Smith, CEO of national VPP development powerhouse CPower Energy, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the role VPPs, composed of distribution system located and often largely aggregated customer-owned distributed energy resources, can play in meeting today’s demand growth and affordability challenges.

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