{"id":366,"date":"2017-03-05T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=366"},"modified":"2017-03-06T04:49:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:49:44","slug":"from-the-web-digital-marketplace-turns-rooftop-solar-into-a-virtual-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/05\/from-the-web-digital-marketplace-turns-rooftop-solar-into-a-virtual-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Digital Marketplace Turns Rooftop Solar Into A Virtual Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-367\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-06-at-3.47.25-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-06-at-3.47.25-AM.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-06-at-3.47.25-AM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-06-at-3.47.25-AM-500x283.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen temperatures surged well over 100 degrees in Australia during a heat wave in February, the electric grid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3068254\/our-air-conditioning-dependency-is-pushing-the-electrical-grid-to-its-breaking-point\" target=\"_self\">couldn&#8217;t handle the demand from air conditioners<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2017\/feb\/10\/australia-weather-heat-power-outage-blackout-fire-danger-nsw-live\" target=\"_blank\">90,000 people<\/a>\u00a0lost power. Normally, the government would fire up a backup gas power plant to meet surges in demand. But instead, new software could let rooftop solar power do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The Decentralized Energy Exchange, or deX, is a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3041675\/could-a-peer-to-peer-marketplace-for-renewable-energy-be-the-wave-of-the-future\" target=\"_self\">digital marketplace<\/a>\u00a0that links homeowners or businesses with solar panels and batteries to the grid, letting them\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3066000\/instead-of-buying-electricity-from-the-power-company-what-if-you-bought-it-from-your-neighbo\" target=\"_self\">trade power with neighbors or with utilities<\/a>. At times of peak demand, someone with stored solar power can make extra money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3068578\/this-new-digital-marketplace-turns-rooftop-solar-into-a-virtual-power-plant\">Learn more<\/a><em> (via Fast Company)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When temperatures surged well over 100 degrees in Australia during a heat wave in February, the electric grid\u00a0couldn&#8217;t handle the demand from air conditioners, and\u00a090,000 people\u00a0lost power. Normally, the government would fire up a backup gas power plant to meet surges in demand. But instead, new software could let rooftop solar power do the same &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/05\/from-the-web-digital-marketplace-turns-rooftop-solar-into-a-virtual-power-plant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Digital Marketplace Turns Rooftop Solar Into A Virtual Power Plant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[427000,425248,425622],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-5U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}