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Energy Policy Design Institute Launches VPP Convergence Project

Wide range of industry experts and stakeholders join unique effort to overcome policy barriers preventing large-scale VPP deployment.

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We transform traditional regulatory processes from policy fights into collaborative design projects

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VPP Convergence Project

Challenge: Confusion, hype, and disjointed advocacy in the regulatory arena

Approach: Synthesize knowledge, create a common policy framework, and mobilize stakeholders around a shared VPP vision

Status: Launched October 2025

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VPP Convergence Project
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Maryland Energy Storage Program

Challenge: Create energy storage market to achieve state deployment target

Approach: Equip stakeholders and staff for their policy journey and facilitate the design process

Status: Phase I complete, Phase II ongoing

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New Hampshire Interconnection Rules

Challenge: Modernize interconnection rules for distributed energy resources

Approach: Provide structure and expert facilitation to enable productive stakeholder process

Status: Full set of draft rules completed ahead of schedule

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LDES National Consortium

Challenge: Develop policy recommendations to commercialize long-duration energy storage

Approach: Segment LDES markets and create a policy roadmap with landmarks and priority actions

Status: Roadmap outline developed, recommendations under development

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Ongoing
NARUC Resilience Framework

Challenge: Create a framework for developing resilience policies and programs

Approach: Provide a structure, concepts, and terminology to support planning and design of policies

Status: Report published early 2025, NARUC trainings ongoing

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Our Mission

EPDI accelerates effective policy change to achieve a resilient, equitable clean energy system by providing design-thinking based tools and training to policy staff at state energy agencies.

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Energy Policy Design Institute Launches VPP Convergence Project to Advance Virtual Power Plant Adoption

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Energy Policy Design Institute Launches VPP Convergence Project to Advance Virtual Power Plant Adoption

Wide range of industry experts and stakeholders join unique effort to overcome policy barriers preventing large-scale VPP deployment.

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The Process to Enact State Climate Laws is Broken. Funders Can Help Fix It.

States are the best hope for clean-energy action during the Trump administration. But steps must be taken to prevent new legislation from falling into regulatory black holes.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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Transforming Ideas into Policy: VPPs

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Energy Changemakers

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The State-Level Climate Roadblocks Almost No One is Addressing

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MCJ Newsletter

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If you want ‘virtual power plants,’ first define them

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Our Vision Background

Our Vision

A clean, resilient, equitable electricity system

Achieving our climate goal requires a regulatory system based on efficiency and long-term, unbiased systems thinking, without compromising on safety, reliability, or affordability.

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