According to the New York ISO, demand response assets have grown 16% heading into the summer of 2025, up from 2024’s 1.3 GW. This will have to accelerate a great deal further, as planned decommissionings of old assets are set to outweigh new generation assets. In California, aging and wildfire-prone transmission infrastructure push the state toward ever-greater microgrid structures – progress which may be stalled now by IRA cuts. Meanwhile China’s VPP efforts, which are less developed in terms of market structures, benefit from considerable EV and charging station integration. China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and National Energy Administration (NEA) stated in April that by 2027, the national “regulation capacity” of VPPs will be 20 GW, rising to…