I work on building VPPs. Two interesting problems that come up:
- Counter-factuals; you're often paying someone to not do something, and it is really, really confusing and hard sometimes to measure whether something didn't happen. The car didn't charge at 4pm.. would it have charged if we hadn't told the charger to not charge at 4pm? What if the owner planned to leave at 4.10pm anyway?
- Double counting & profit sharing: There is a surprising amount of money on the table here and kind of a sudden frenzy - what happens when Ford auto-enrolls your new car into their VPP for their own purposes, and you sell it yourself to an aggregator like us, and your utility sells it too? And how do the proceeds get split?
- Counter-factuals; you're often paying someone to not do something, and it is really, really confusing and hard sometimes to measure whether something didn't happen. The car didn't charge at 4pm.. would it have charged if we hadn't told the charger to not charge at 4pm? What if the owner planned to leave at 4.10pm anyway?
- Double counting & profit sharing: There is a surprising amount of money on the table here and kind of a sudden frenzy - what happens when Ford auto-enrolls your new car into their VPP for their own purposes, and you sell it yourself to an aggregator like us, and your utility sells it too? And how do the proceeds get split?