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Integration of renewable energy, which is distributed and intermittent by nature, calls for harnessing the inherent flexibilities in the supply and demand side. Experiences across the world have shown that Virtual Power Plant is an important intervention in tapping redundancy and bringing it logically through the market mechanism into the utility’s scheduling process. With a major push towards de-carbonization in capacity addition, we may find Virtual Power Plants in India faster than expected. Is the country prepared for it?
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Mondal, T., Mukherjee, D.A. (2018). Virtual Power Plants: How Far Is India from This Reality. In: De, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., Assadi, M., Mukherjee, D. (eds) Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8393-8_15
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