Virtual Power Plant Patents: Who Leads, Where the Gaps Are 2026
Virtual power plant aggregation patents: mapping who is claiming dispatch, baseline and portfolio control
Filing peaked in 2020 at 8 records, then fell sharply — 2021's 8 filings dropped to 0 by 2024, a complete reversal in three years. Filings rose from zero in 2017 to a peak of 8 in 2020, held near that level through 2021, then fell to 0 by 2024 — a -100% swing over that three-year span. 2025 and 2026 figures are still filling in under the publication lag and should not be read as a continued drop.
- 1CIRCLESX LLC6
- 2EPEX SPOT SE5
- 3MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES INC2
- 4STRONG FORCE EE PORTFOLIO 2022 LLC2
- 5CENTRICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS BELGIUM NV2
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- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions on this landscape
How many patents exist for virtual power plant aggregation?
This dataset finds 21 published records in scope between 2015 and the 2026-07-31 cut-off, drawn from a search combining core VPP and aggregator-platform terms with technical friction points like baseline estimation and dispatch latency. That is a narrow, technically-filtered count rather than every filing that mentions virtual power plants broadly. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the most recent one to two years of this count will rise as more filings publish.
Who are the leading patent filers in virtual power plant aggregation?
The ranking covers 11 companies total, ranging from software-first aggregator platforms to grid equipment majors and state-affiliated research institutes. The leader holds 6 records against a field that drops to 2 by fifth place and just 1 by tenth place — a steep concentration at the top with a long tail of single-filing entrants. This is the full ranking the dataset returns, not a top-50 or top-100 cut.
Is virtual power plant patent filing activity growing or slowing?
Filings rose from 0 in 2017 to a peak of 8 in 2020, held at 8 in 2021, and had fallen to 0 by 2024 — a -100% change over that three-year span. That looks like a sharp pullback, but 2025 and 2026 data are still incomplete under the normal 18-month publication lag, so it is safer to describe 2020–2021 as a filing wave that has not yet been confirmed to continue, rather than to call the field currently in decline.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Virtual Power Plant Aggregation covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.