VPP Goes Municipal: New Orleans’ $30 Million Neighborhood Battery Plan Is a Playbook for Multifamily and Master Plans
In December, the New Orleans City Council approved a $30 million, three-year “Neighborhood Power Plan” to pay for solar-tied batteries and coordinate those systems as a single, dispatchable resource — a virtual power plant. For commercial real estate owners, investors and planners, it’s a signal that VPPs are leaving pilot-land.