August 2025
Member Spotlight
In 2025, we will recognize one member each month, providing an organizational profile and highlighting the member's accomplishments in the smart energy space.
About Virtual Peaker
Virtual Peaker is a leading virtual power plant software company that empowers utilities to build the grid of the future and meet global decarbonization goals. Through its cutting-edge software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, the company seamlessly integrates Grid-Edge distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) components, customer engagement and demand forecasting. Virtual Peaker's groundbreaking technology, Topline Demand Control, paves the way for the next generation of virtual power plant capabilities.
Intelligent VPP Solutions Powered by AI
The only adaptable, self-service virtual power plant platform designed to turn any utility into a modern, customer-centric, and decentralized organization, Virtual Peaker helps clients across the country optimize the benefits of distributed energy resources and their impact on the grid.
The software unifies all aspects of DER program management, like enrollment, device monitoring, device control, forecasting, event messaging, incentive delivery and ongoing customer engagement in one easy-to-use platform. Virtual Peaker’s three platform suites (Shift, Relay and Envision) are integrated to work seamlessly together. Modular by design and developed to continuously evolve with new features and functionality in a rapidly changing energy landscape, our platform is complete with a user-friendly interface built with utility needs in mind.
Grid-Edge DERMS: Simplified DER Management and Control
Central to Virtual Peaker’s offerings, the Grid-Edge DERMS suite, Shift, helps utilities manage residential electric demand by connecting distributed energy resources for residential demand response programs to reduce costs and peak load.
With an integrated enrollment management framework built directly into the utility interface, utilities easily manage demand response program enrollment, control and analytics from multiple equipment manufacturers – from thermostats, batteries, water heaters, EV chargers and EV telematics. Shift enables utilities to manage the complete lifecycle of DERs and take control of their DER strategy with real-time, device-level data, all while gaining insights from normalized, aggregated analytics to assess program performance.
Customer Engagement: Build Trust and Boost Participation
Relay, Virtual Peaker’s customer engagement suite, is built for utilities to leverage DER programs to boost customer interactions and foster relationships built on trust through innovative technologies and seamless customer engagement features.
Having the ability to engage customers quickly and effectively can make all the difference when it comes to the success of demand response programs. Virtual Peaker’s customer engagement tools make it simple to utilize branded materials to promote and drive enrollment, engagement and participation. Relay customers have access to numerous features, including the Homeowner Application, Message Center and Incentive Processing tools, designed to create mutually beneficial experiences for their organization and their customers.
Demand Forecasting: Peak Load Preparation Has Never Been Easier
Virtual Peaker’s demand forecasting suite, Envision, leverages machine learning best practices and approaches to automate the training and assessment of forecasting models to ensure you always have the best forecast available.
Envision’s seamless integration with our Grid-Edge DERMS, Shift enables seamless forecasting, transforming information into actionable insights. The combination of suites synthesizes multiple data sources and allows for the scheduling of corresponding events, and more, all within the same platform. Not only that, Envision provides comprehensive data and access to all the insights in one accurate, easy-to-read command center. From comprehensive weather forecasts to past and present load shed, Envision has it covered. To request a demo, click here.
