California has the largest virtual power plant in the world, with 200,000 participants. At the exact moment when the grid is dirtiest and most expensive to run, this program surges in with the cheapest, cleanest power. Newsom's budget would kill it. That's just bad policy.
200,000 Californians create as much power as a nuclear plant to help the grid. Now that's up in the airCalifornia has one of the most successful "virtual power plants" in the world, but it's on the chopping block.www.latimes.com
