Headed to RE+ Events? Sparkfund will be on the ground! Catch Pier LaFarge at "DCP: Scaling DERs to Meet the Next Wave of Demand" on Tuesday at 4 PM in the Venetian Expo Hall, and at the PowerUp Stage at 7 PM to talk utility-ed DER deployment. ️See you there.

Enough theoreticals. Here’s the “how.” 👇 This 6-step DCP roadmap, included in the SEPA white paper, turns utility-led DERs into an executable plan. Swipe the carousel, then grab the paper to dig into roles, filings, and on-the-ground execution.

If data centers, feeder constraints, and interconnection queues are crowding your calendar, this is your field guide. Sparkfund breaks down how utility-led DER deployment turns planning into capacity, fast. 👉Get the resources: hubs.la/Q03J6yNS0

What a week at RE+ ⚡️ Sparkfund showed up to trade notes with utilities, developers, and partners about how to build capacity faster and smarter, and Pier LaFarge joined SEPA's Lakin Garth on stage to discuss scaling DERs into reliable grid resources with Distributed Capacity

Hispanic Heritage Month is a chance to recognize the Latino talent that powers our industry, from lineworkers and engineers to contractors, operators, and business owners. A reliable grid serves everyone when programs are easy to access, multilingual, and designed with local

At #ClimateWeekNYC? 🌎⚡️ We’ll be there meeting regulators, utilities, & developers on adding capacity faster with utility-led DERs. Plus, join our VP of Deployment ever.green “Catalysts for Change,” Slalom WTC tomorrow (9/23) at 8:30 AM.

Climate Week brings many energy conversations focused on national and global action, but we also want to celebrate the state-level policy momentum making distributed capacity part of core grid planning, with more than 100 policy actions in 2024 alone. Regulators are opening the

#ClimateWeekNYC takeaway: capacity must show up faster, with less drama. While big wires get built, DCP unlocks headroom now at the feeder/building level: plan → deploy → dispatch like utility assets. Thanks for the great convos! ⚡️️

We’re at Fortnightly’s Top Innovators 2025 in DC, and on Oct 7 @ 11:30 AM, Sparkfund’s John Slocum will dig into practical ways utilities can boosting grid utilization with utility-led DERs. See you there!

⚡ Big news: Sparkfund is collaborating with Xcel Energy MN to deliver Minnesota’s distributed grid! With Sparkfund’s support, Xcel Energy is working on the first-of-its-kind battery network: up to 200 MW of utility-integrated storage by 2028, sited at commercial, industrial, and

Data-center demand is arriving on a timeline that steel and concrete can’t match. From our vantage point, the unlock is orchestration. With the DCP model, utilities plan where capacity is needed, deploy assets with hosts, and dispatch them as dependable infrastructure.

Next stop: Governors Island. ⛴️ Sparkfund is supporting #DERVOS2025, a day built for people who believe distributed energy is how we meet the next wave of demand. As a Microgrid Sponsor, we’re excited to connect with utilities, microgrid pros, and DER innovators, comparing notes

We’re back from #DERVOS2025 with one takeaway ringing in our ears: better use of the grid we already have is the fastest path forward. The U.S. grid is dramatically underused: 95% of the time, >20% of the power system is unused. Using what we’ve got (batteries, flexible load,

New pod drop! 🎧 Sparkfund CEO Pier LaFarge joined Norton Rose Fulbright's Currents Podcast. Learn how DCP enables an “all-of-the-above” ecosystem, and scales capacity faster with procurement sized to real grid needs: hubs.la/Q03PMxqx0

At the 2025 IAEE, Sparkfund CEO Pier LaFarge will keynote with a candid look at how Iowa can meet surging load and keep bills in check by treating distributed capacity resources as core infrastructure. Walk away with a practical playbook for scaling DERs incrementally and

No one wants to be in the dark. With smarter use of storage and demand flexibility, we tap more of today’s grid and keep communities online. That’s Distributed Capacity Procurement in action: plan where capacity’s needed, deploy with local hosts, dispatch like utility assets.

“By storing energy when it’s cheap, delivering it when it’s needed most and placing assets where they maximize grid value, Xcel Energy is delivering reliable energy to customers today and building a grid that is ready for tomorrow,” Sparkfund CEO Pier LaFarge said. Read here:

To all veterans and military families: thank you. According to the DOE, the concentration of veterans is higher in energy than in the overall U.S. workforce. If you’re considering a next mission, the energy and construction trades, often through union apprenticeships, offer

️⚡️We’re hiring a Director of Strategic Project Engineering & Operations to lead battery storage deployment and help build a team to support expansion. 📍 Minneapolis–St. Paul (relocation available) 💻 Apply here: hubs.la/Q03Tx-sl0 #ProjectEngineering #EnergyJobs

“Crucially — especially in this moment of load growth and rising electricity rates — DERs can be deployed in a matter of months, rather than the three to five years required to build a new gas plant. DCP, assuming regulators get onboard, could be a cheaper and faster way to get