On Friday we spoke to Alex Georgiou, CMO of GTL Group and Co-founder of ShineHub, which is one of a dozen or so Virtual Power Plant (VPP) companies active in Australia. ShineHub was founded in 2016, back when the VPP concept was little-known. It built its own digital framework from scratch and Georgiou claims the company is an industry leader emulated by others – and it is certainly the case that ShineHub’s cloud-based approach appears more scalable than some of its rivals, some of whom use a physical installation of programmed hardware. ShineHub declared its VPP-compatible domestic solar-storage product ready for market in June 2021, calling it “the first end-to-end digital experience in the home solar industry”. The company has…