The panel
The Battery Innovation Summit ran April 22 to 24, 2026, hosted by The Battery Saloon. Day 2, April 23, included a panel on distributed energy resources (DER) and virtual power plants (VPPs). Reid Westwood, Head of SW Architecture at Rondo Energy, moderated. Ben Hilborn, co-founder and CEO of Elastic Energy, was one of three speakers. The recording runs about 43 minutes and The Battery Saloon published it on July 23, 2026.
Why it fits
Our virtual power plant work starts at the device, so a DER and VPP panel is home turf. The conversation gives a view of how the people building this part of the grid frame the questions.
Worth knowing
The summit date comes from the organizer's description. The video was published three months after the event.