We followed up last week’s story about Virtual Power Plants (VPP) by talking to the man at RMI who is at the center of this new development, co-lead on the project Kevin Brehm. It turns out that this has been in gestation for about a year, after General Motors and Google Nest came to Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) to see about creating a new organization entirely around VPP. “When they came to us we thought this could really be the time that we see VPP and demand energy and DER step up and play a more important role in electricity markets,” said Brehm. He explained that RMI had carried out work in this area since the 80s, and that it…