Vertiv Partners with CPower to Enhance Data Center Grid Capacity
At Transition-AI 2026, Vertiv and CPower Energy, a leading Virtual Power Plant, or VPP, platform, announced a new collaboration to help data centers in the U.S. accelerate speed-to-power and improve grid capacity by turning battery energy storage systems, or BESS, and other behind-the-meter energy assets into grid resources. Vertiv has integrated its Vertiv EnergyCore Grid BESS with CPower's VPP platform to help data centers use behind-the-meter storage and other energy assets for demand response and other grid services, while improving facility resilience, supporting interconnection strategies, and increasing the economic value of installed infrastructure. As a first step in the collaboration, Vertiv worked with CPower to monetize a 1 MW microgrid - combining BESS, solar, hydrogen fuel cell and uninterruptible power supply systems - at Vertiv's Customer Experience Center in Ohio. The project enabled Vertiv to generate demand response revenue, secure on-bill savings and support PJM, the largest grid operator in North America. The program helped Vertiv offset capital expenses by optimizing the performance of the microgrid's BESS across capacity, economic and ancillary services programs.
