Mark Dyson wants the energy industry to retire one of its favorite pieces of jargon. Dyson, a principal with Rocky Mountain Institute's electricity practice, thinks the industry has made a mistake by settling on the term “virtual power plant” to describe how grid-scale renewables and distributed energy resources together provide grid services. “I hate the term ‘virtual power plant,’” he told Greentech Media in an interview on the sidelines of last week's Grid Edge Innovation Summit.