Electrifying Everything: Let's Get Flexible

The key to the value of DERs is that they make electricity demand more controllable. With energy generation and storage scattered throughout distribution grids, grid operators have a way to move energy around, both geographically and temporally, without firing up more power plants. They can absorb extra energy if there’s a dip in demand or produce ... See more

By bringing demand more under grid operators’ control, DERs virtually eliminate curtailment, or discarding of renewable energy due to temporary oversupply, through 2045. Just as they allow transmission to be used more effectively, they allow us to consume more of the energy generated by existing utility-scale renewables.

The core user flow of Daylight is as follows:

• Homeowners can store excess energy produced by a DER; this is standard, as there’s typically enough in excess to produce revenues and sustain a home’s energy consumption


• In times of high demand, distribute this energy back to the grid


• VPP operators can aggregate these homes into pools and sell it back to a

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In large, populous nations, the complete reliance on these renewables would require what we are still missing: either mass-scale, long-term (days to weeks) electricity storage that would back up intermittent electricity generation, or extensive grids of high-voltage lines to transmit electricity across time zones and from sunny and windy regions to

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