Many batteries. One power plant.
A virtual power plant networks many buildings’ batteries into one dispatchable plant. AMPS, MYNT’s asset management layer, bids that fleet into CAISO on 5-minute dispatch, and FERC Order 2222 lets aggregated assets as small as 100 kW sell into wholesale markets. Owners get stacked revenue: bill savings, demand charges, DR events, and wholesale, backed by 25-year performance guarantees.
What is a VPP, and how does my building earn from one?
Start with one building. Its battery already saves money behind the meter. On its own, that’s where the story ends.
One building. Then ten.
Network many buildings’ batteries together and dispatch them as one plant. No turbines, no smokestack: a power plant made of other people’s basements and parking lots.
Then a grid.
FERC Order 2222, which CAISO implemented first in the nation, lets aggregated resources that small sell into wholesale markets. Your asset doesn’t even have to clear the bar alone; it joins a fleet that does.
between dispatch decisions: AMPS reads CAISO prices and repositions the whole fleet.
revenue streams stacked on the same asset: bill savings, demand charges, DR events, and wholesale.
performance guarantees with O&M included, what we call investment-grade revenue.
AMPS · Asset Management Performance Services · CAISO
What does AMPS do all day?
AMPS, Asset Management Performance Services, is the intelligence layer of the VPP. Every five minutes it reads CAISO prices and decides, for every battery in the fleet, whether this moment is for charging, discharging, holding, or bidding. Your building’s own needs are always served first; the market only ever gets what’s left over.
Around the dispatch loop sits the boring, essential rest: O&M included, performance monitoring, warranty administration, and 25-year performance guarantees, optimized over the life of the asset.
5-min dispatch · O&M included · Investment-grade revenue
A fleet dispatch day · orange = evening peak discharge · illustrative shape
How does the battery actually earn?
The same way any trader earns: buy low, sell high, except your battery does it with electrons. Charge when midday solar makes power nearly free. Discharge into the evening peak, when the grid pays a premium. Bid that spread into CAISO, five minutes at a time. Your battery becomes a position in the energy market, managed by ours, owned by you.
CAISO · FERC Order 2222 · 5-min dispatch
Bill savings
Solar self-consumption: energy you stop buying from the utility at all.
Demand charges
The battery shaves your peaks, and the demand line on your bill drops with them.
DR events
Demand-response programs pay you for being available when the grid is stressed.
Wholesale market
The FERC 2222 stream: energy arbitrage and services bid into CAISO by AMPS.
The asset underneath, and the plain-English version.
Common VPP questions.
Is my building big enough to join a VPP?
Probably. FERC Order 2222, which CAISO implemented first in the nation, lets aggregated resources as small as 100 kW sell into wholesale markets. That's the scale of a mid-size commercial battery, and aggregation means your asset doesn't even have to clear that bar alone; it joins a fleet that does.
Do I lose control of my battery?
No. Your behind-the-meter needs always get first call: demand-charge management and self-consumption savings are served before a single kilowatt-hour is bid to market. AMPS only dispatches the capacity left over after your building is taken care of, so joining the fleet never costs you the savings you already had.
What does AMPS cost me?
Nothing upfront and nothing to install. AMPS is paid out of the new revenue it generates: the market earnings that didn't exist before your battery joined the fleet. If the dispatch doesn't earn, we don't either, which keeps our incentives pointed exactly where yours are.
Is the revenue actually dependable?
It's built to be. AMPS pairs market dispatch with 25-year performance guarantees and O&M included. That's what we call investment-grade revenue. Dispatch always stays inside your battery manufacturer's warranty limits for cycling, depth of discharge, and temperature, so the earning never comes at the asset's expense.
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