Brattle Report: Virtual Power Plants Can Offset Overinvestment in Grid Infrastructure Caused by Missed Demand from AI Data Centers
A report by Brattle Group for the Pew Charitable Trust estimates that the United States has 113 GW of distributed energy resources available for virtual power plants (VPPs) in 2025. Expanding this capacity to over four times that amount—reaching 524 GW by mid-century—could avoid $614 billion in grid infrastructure investment and reduce the average household electricity bill by $122 annually by 2050.
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