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Tesla Virtual Power Plant

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  • Presented by Colin Breck and Percy Link, Tesla engineers

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Colin Breck and Percy Link explain the architecture of Tesla's Virtual Power Plant, which aggregates distributed energy resources across cloud and edge.

Video with transcript included: bit.ly/3dGm8us Colin Breck and Percy Link explore the evolution of Tesla's Virtual Power Plant (VPP) architecture. A VPP is a network of distributed energy-resources (often solar, wind, batteries) that are aggregated to provide smarter and more flexible power generation, distribution, and availability. Tesla's VPP consists of vertically integrated hardware and software, including both cloud and edge computing. This presentation was recorded at QCon London 2020: bit.ly/2VfRldq The next QCon is QCon New York 2020 – June 15-17, 2020: bit.ly/2Uyj39C For more awesome presentations on innovator and early adopter topics check InfoQ’s selection of talks from conferences worldwide bit.ly/2tm9loz #Tesla #CaseStudy #VirtualPowerPlant

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What people say. Recommended for its technical details on how Tesla builds and operates distributed software systems for energy markets.

kuloron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Virtual Power Plants and Software”

The linked Tesla QCon presentation link to this video was an informative watch that covers the power problem space and their distributed software solution, something Tesla is uniquely positioned to pull off with their end-to-end platform.
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u/Seth_LightbendScala teamin r/scala • Mentions

On “Elon's plans for Twitter”

Colin Breck has given a series of talks about it, e.g. link to this video Perhaps they use Scala for other things too, I don't know. This is the one that I know that they've talked about in public.
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manicdeeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals thanks to Autobidder”

Technical innards of the Autobidder system in case you care to know more link to this video It’s basically a market forecasting system which allows the operator to place bids on various energy markets such as supply, contingency and ancillary services. The battery has limited resources (power output and energy storage) so it needs to plan well ahead for making the most money for each watt-hour it buys or sells.
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cptcobalton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tesla Virtual Power Plant”

…lants that typically spark up at these times. You benefit because there's a big chance that there won't be rolling blackouts in California this afternoon—distributed assets like this can be dispatched. Dispatch Info: link A VPP tracker in the Tesla community: link Some technical details of how Tesla VPPs work, as organized distributed systems: link to this video CAISO Grid Outlook: link…
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ZeroGravitason Hacker News • Mentions

On “Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study”

Tesla calls this "Virtual Power Plant" and there's a talk by a couple of the software devs online somewhere. Found it: link to this video Some other people have mentioned that you just need to vary the price, but the price is set by bids from providers. Code that can learn demand patterns and integrate weather forecasts will let Tesla bid lower and so earn more money in the market while also lowering energy costs for everyone.
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