Google and Voltus Announce One Gigawatt Bring Your Own Capacity Agreement in PJM

Google-fu ded vi tual powe pla t to st e gthe the g id, suppo t e e gy affo dability, a d delive fi a cial value to homes a d busi esses

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Voltus, a leadi g dist ibuted e e gy esou ce (DER) platfo m, a d Google a ou ced a expa ded ag eeme t to build a 1 gigawatt (GW) vi tual powe pla t (VPP) i the PJM g id egio , u locki g ew capacity a d delive i g savi gs fo custome s.

I Ju e 2026, Google a d Voltus sig ed a i itial ag eeme t to delive 100 megawatts (MW) of flexible powe capacity i PJM, which se ves 67 millio custome s ac oss 13 states a d the Dist ict of Columbia. Today’s a ou ceme t of a additio al 1,070 MW of capacity ep ese ts o e of the la gest k ow dist ibuted capacity po tfolios deployed by a hype scale to date.

As with the fi st ag eeme t, Voltus will agg egate ew capacity f om local busi esses a d homes i to a Google-fu ded Vi tual Powe Pla t. Whe the g id is u de st ai , Voltus sig als those sites, which the ca use batte ies, sma t the mostats, i dust ial p ocess adjustme ts a d othe flexible assets to educe e e gy use.

Voltus the delive s fi a cial be efits, such as bill savi gs a d di ect payme ts, to pa ticipati g custome s, tu i g Google’s capacity dema d i to eal eco omic be efits fo PJM custome s. A ece t epo t f om The B attle G oup p edicts U.S. co sume s could save mo e tha $100 billio ove the ext decade th ough bette g id utilizatio .

“Dist ibuted e e gy esou ces a e powe ful tools fo ma agi g a mode , eliable g id while keepi g e e gy affo dable,” said Elle Zucke ma , head of e e gy ma ket developme t fo No th & South Ame ica at Google. “Expa di g ou i itial commitme t te fold demo st ates ou co e effo t to actively b i g ou ow capacity to the g ids that se ve us. P ocu i g this capacity th ough a gigawatt-scale vi tual powe pla t e su es Google’s ope atio s i PJM suppo t egio al eliability a d delive di ect eco omic be efits to local commu ities.”

“This sig ifica t expa sio of ou wo k with Google t a slates data ce te g owth i to di ect eco omic be efits fo busi esses a d homes,” said Da a Gue sey, CEO of Voltus. “Th ough this pa t e ship we a e p oud to b i g much eeded clea capacity o li e, at gigawatt scale.”

About VoltusVoltus is a leadi g DER tech ology platfo m a d vi tual powe pla t ope ato co ecti g dist ibuted e e gy esou ces to elect icity ma kets, delive i g less expe sive, mo e eliable, a d mo e sustai able elect icity. Th ough its B i g You Ow Capacity (BYOC)™ p og am, Voltus b i gs ew flexible capacity to the g id. Voltus’s comme cial a d i dust ial custome s a d DER pa t e s ge e ate value by allowi g Voltus to maximize the value of thei flexible load, dist ibuted ge e atio , e e gy sto age, e e gy efficie cy, a d elect ic vehicle esou ces i these ma kets. To lea mo e, visit www.voltus.co.

About GoogleGoogle’s missio is to o ga ize the wo ld’s i fo matio a d make it u ive sally accessible a d useful. Th ough p oducts a d platfo ms like Sea ch, Maps, Gmail, A d oid, Google Play, Google Cloud, Ch ome a d YouTube, Google plays a mea i gful ole i the daily lives of billio s of people a d has become o e of the most widely-k ow compa ies i the wo ld. Google is a subsidia y of Alphabet I c.

Voltus Co tact: Sa ah Spitzp ess@voltus.co832-444-7151

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