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30 Sep 2026, 2:19 AM	Hacker News	6.0	Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries BBC Future reports on Vermont's Green Mountain Power programme, which leases two home batteries to participants for $55 per month over 10 years; one participant chose it over a $12,000 gas generator and says she has not lost power since the 2024 installation. More than 5,500 homes now form a virtual power plant that GMP says is Vermont's largest power source. The US has over 40GW of VPP capacity today, and a 2025 Department of Energy report estimates 160GW could be unlocked by 2030, about 20% of expected peak demand. Why: There is no Malaysia or Southeast Asia policy, pricing, or utility detail here, so for most local AI/ML and SaaS builders this is not an immediate action item. It matters if you are building distributed energy, IoT, or utility orchestration software: the concrete model is a $55/month battery lease aggregated across 5,500+ homes, replacing a $12,000 generator, which is a different unit economic and software problem from standard SaaS. virtual-power-plant energy-infrastructure iot distributed-systems

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30 Sep 2026, 2:19 AM

Hacker News

6.0

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

BBC Future reports on Vermont's Green Mountain Power programme, which leases two home batteries to participants for $55 per month over 10 years; one participant chose it over a $12,000 gas generator and says she has not lost power since the 2024 installation. More than 5,500 homes now form a virtual power plant that GMP says is Vermont's largest power source. The US has over 40GW of VPP capacity today, and a 2025 Department of Energy report estimates 160GW could be unlocked by 2030, about 20% of expected peak demand.

Why: There is no Malaysia or Southeast Asia policy, pricing, or utility detail here, so for most local AI/ML and SaaS builders this is not an immediate action item. It matters if you are building distributed energy, IoT, or utility orchestration software: the concrete model is a $55/month battery lease aggregated across 5,500+ homes, replacing a $12,000 generator, which is a different unit economic and software problem from standard SaaS.