We recently spoke to Michael Stadler, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Xendee – a California-based software design company whose models currently cover over 25 distributed energy technologies and fourteen different ‘value streams’ – types of energy consumption or sale. Xendee is not the only company we’ve spoken to which could clearly design and manage Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) if it wanted to, but prefers to completely avoid the use of the term, in this case in favor of microgrids. Stadler himself moved out of the research space to found Xendee in 2018, with a company whose initial commercialization plan was as a planning tool. Xendee’s main business case is now managing microgrids and EV charging, optimizing user demand and…