[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-google-funds-1070-mw-virtual-power-plant-with-voltus-on-pjm":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12154,"google-funds-1070-mw-virtual-power-plant-with-voltus-on-pjm","Google Funds 1,070 MW Virtual Power Plant With Voltus on PJM","Google will pay for a Voltus-run virtual power plant on the PJM grid, adding 1,070 megawatts to a 100 megawatt deal struck in June.","Google will fund a 1 gigawatt virtual power plant run by Voltus on the PJM grid, with the capacity meant to supply its operations in the region.\n\nThe new commitment adds 1,070 megawatts to the 100 megawatts the two companies agreed in June, they said. That makes the latest tranche more than 10 times the size of the first. Terms were not disclosed.\n\nA virtual power plant is software that coordinates many scattered resources, such as batteries or equipment that can cut its electricity use on request, so they behave like one generator. Nothing gets poured in concrete. The capacity comes from flexibility that already exists, bundled and sold as a dependable block.\n\nPJM is one of the largest grid operators in the country. It serves 67 million customers across 13 states and the District of Columbia, so a project of this size is a meaningful addition to a shared system, not a rounding error.\n\nThe interesting part is who is paying. A big electricity user is financing supply-side capacity for itself instead of waiting for the grid to expand around it. Going from 100 megawatts to more than 1,000 within a single partnership suggests the first deal gave Google reason to scale up, though the companies did not say what drove the decision.\n\nThe open question is performance. A virtual power plant earns its keep only if thousands of small resources respond together when the grid is tight, and a deal this size will be judged on exactly that.","[\"virtual-power-plant\",\"google\",\"energy\",\"pjm\"]","2026-10-22T13:24:25.000Z","2026-10-22T14:33:59.002Z","2026-10-22T14:33:59.185Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the unsupported 'October 22' date (the source only says 'Thursday'), which also undermines the 'about four months' and 'nearly twelvefold' claims. Drop the sentence reconciling the '1 gigawatt label' with the 1,070 MW tranche, since that comments on a source discrepancy in the copy. Replace the 'the source gives no…' and 'the source does not say…' lines with plain statements, such as 'Terms were not disclosed', because readers can't see the source.","resolved","science",[32,33,34,35],"virtual-power-plant","google","energy","pjm",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fgoogle-voltus-1gw-virtual-power-plant-pjm",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,68,73,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7062,"2026-10-22T17:00:39.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",1042,"2026-10-22T15:11:26.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Policy","policy",570,"2026-10-22T16:00:29.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",558,"2026-10-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Hardware","hardware",287,"2026-10-22T16:18:47.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",281,"2026-10-22T14:09:11.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":30,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Science",214,"2026-10-22T14:59:28.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Startups","startups",142,"2026-10-22T16:05:08.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Software","software",138,"2026-10-22T04:52:10.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"General","general",96,"2026-10-22T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"Gaming","gaming",86,"2026-10-22T13:17:59.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]