Leap, a provider of software to aggregate distributed energy resources into VPPs, has raised US$12 million equity investments.

Enel has revealed the role its digital and distributed technology arm is playing in a European Union-funded project to simplify integration of energy storage systems.

As distributed energy resources such as residential solar rooftop increase in the next decade, aggregation into virtual power plants could save US utilities up to US$35 billion, according to The Brattle Group.

This edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage focuses on virtual power plant action in the US.

Finland telecommunications firm Elisa has received €3.9 million from the government to form a VPP using batteries which could be the largest of its kind in Europe.

A roundup of news from the residential energy storage sector from Australia to California.

Google’s smart home division has joined a group of companies including Ford, Sunpower and Sunrun in founding a new partnership centred around scaling the market for virtual power plants (VPP).

Agilitas Energy, a developer of distributed solar PV and energy storage with a focus on the north-east US, is our latest contributor.

FlexGen has completed the first project in its 40MW buildout for a set of electric cooperative utilities in North Carolina.

Swell Energy has raised US$120 million funding towards its 600MWh virtual power plant programme across the US.