Virtual Power Plants seem to have a promising future by reaping cost-savings and environmental benefits for the grid, consumers, and utility companies. VPP within the distributed system offers a way to forgo capital intensive investments, create grid reliability and operational optimization.
Distributed energy generation at such a scale in Pakistan would need both technological and institutional change that maximizes the use of renewables- especially solar and wind. The good news is that decentralized assets is the now in trend worldwide and VPP’s makes it possible for such smaller assets to get the same regulatory treatment as power plants.