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      "definition": "Changing electricity consumption in answer to a price signal or a grid operator’s request, rather than adding generation. Pausing a fleet’s charging during an evening peak, or letting a home battery carry the house load for an hour, are typical examples; aggregated, such flexible loads can be paid as grid services.",
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        "definition": "Many small, distributed resources — home batteries, electric vehicles, rooftop solar, heat pumps — aggregated by software and dispatched together as if they were one power station. A few thousand home batteries add up to tens of megawatts of fast, controllable capacity that can trade energy and provide frequency services.",
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        "definition": "Charging a battery when electricity is cheap and discharging when it is expensive, the simplest revenue of grid storage. Peak shaving is the same idea applied to a site’s demand charges.",
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        "definition": "Rapidly injecting or absorbing power to hold the grid frequency at 50 or 60 Hz, a service batteries do better than any generator because they respond in milliseconds. It cycles the battery shallowly but very often.",
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        "definition": "The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s order of September 2020 requiring regional grid operators to let aggregations of distributed energy resources — batteries, electric vehicles and their chargers, rooftop solar, demand response — take part in wholesale electricity markets, with a minimum aggregation size of no more than 100 kW.",
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