Resilience of Singapore's power grid to be boosted with virtual power plant
Solar installations and energy-storage systems to be coordinated to work like a single power station to even out energy fluctuations
Singapore
ELECTRICITY produced by distributed energy resources such as solar installations and energy-storage systems in Singapore may soon be coordinated to function like a single power station.
This will be made possible by the development of a virtual power plant (VPP), which brings about greater flexibility and scalability to the power grid, the Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
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