Coverage, interviews, and podcasts on Distributed Capacity Procurement and the utilities putting it to work.
Read the latest reporting on Sparkfund, listen to conversations with our leadership, and find company announcements, newest first.
Sparkfund CEO Pier LaFarge joins hosts Stephen Lacey and Caroline Golin on the new playbook for energy and data centers, from grid utilization to distributed batteries.
PV Magazine USA on an NC Clean Energy Technology Center webinar, where Sparkfund outlined regulatory barriers to scaling distributed resources and pointed to Xcel Energy's Capacity*Connect program as a model for procuring distributed capacity for resource adequacy.
Latitude Media on how distributed capacity should be sold, with Sparkfund CEO Pier LaFarge arguing it is a premium product for premium buyers like hyperscalers, citing Capacity*Connect with Xcel Energy and Google.
I really think utilization has a chance to be the key that unlocks a lot of progress on deploying distributed capacity.
The grid's missing middle: Scaled distributed storage built into the system (opens in new tab)
By Patrick Dalton
To power the AI revolution, data centers must partner with utilities in new ways (opens in new tab)
By Pier LaFarge
By Pier LaFarge
Company announcements from Sparkfund.
Xcel Energy plans to deploy up to 200 MW of distributed battery storage capacity through a first-in-the-nation distributed capacity procurement, in collaboration with Sparkfund.
Sparkfund appoints Bill Bush as Chief Financial Officer.
Sparkfund is the utility services company unlocking capacity on the grid.
Distributed Capacity Procurement (DCP) unlocks capacity by enabling the rapid, scalable deployment of front-of-the-meter battery and genset infrastructure on the distribution grid. Typically sized at 1–5 MW per site, assets deployed through DCP are physically located at customer sites but planned for and operated by utilities as grid resources. DCPs represent a new frontier in utility resource planning, transforming the distribution grid into a platform for capacity growth.
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