The underlying logic of virtual power plants

2025-07-28

A traditional power generation company wants to participate in a virtual power plant, and the leader asked a question: Can my thermal power plant become a virtual power plant?

I said: You already have a physical power plant, can you still call it a virtual power plant?

Physical power plants can provide frequency regulation and peak shaving services for the power system and earn profits, just like virtual power plants, but physical power plants are not equivalent to virtual power plants.

Another traditional power generation company wants to build a virtual power plant with a high degree of flexibility. The actual project that is implemented is actually a large amount of investment in energy storage and charging piles, and then packaging these resources into a virtual power plant to use this concept to drive more investment.

Maybe a thousand people, there are a thousand virtual power plants.

I think the underlying logic of a virtual power plant is:

It is a real energy Internet application.

What is the energy Internet? I think it is the energy industry's transformation from the operation and management mode of the second industrial revolution to the fourth industrial revolution.