One of the companies we spoke to inform our recent Virtual Power Plant (VPP) report was Uplight. This Colorado-based company is big, perhaps the biggest VPP operation out there, with over 700 employees. “What we produce is white-labelled tools which utilities buy and use” explains Donald McPhail, Uplight’s Vice President, Business General Manager in Energy & Decarbonization. Uplight acquired Autogrid in February – supporting Uplight’s customer-end software with Autogrid’s expertise in energy management. “We’re looking at massive growth, and both Uplight and Autogrid are on the leaderboard of Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS),” McPhail states. At time of speaking, which was a few months ago now so the numbers will have grown since, Uplight and Autogrid combined had a…