Sunrun has announced a new VPP partnership with the largest utility of California, PG&E. The collaboration will use hundreds of Sunrun Solar + Storage customer homes to offer targeted tax lighting to neighborhoods that have been identified with very limited electric schedules. The purpose of this approach is to help in avoiding or postponing growth-related distribution investments, which reduces the costs for ratepayers.
The Sunrun-Efforted program is activated from June to October and comprises around 600 Sunrun customers who live in sections of the PG&E service area that experience distribution circuit restrictions.
“Customers with home batteries are a solution for relieving the voltage on our electric grid,” said Sunrun CEO Mary Powell. “We experience a fundamental shift, because houses are no longer only energy consumers. With storage and solar energy, they become powerful gridactiva and deliver affordable, reliable force exactly when and where it is needed for communities and about the schedule.”
The local Peakshift Power Program from Sunrun is part of PG&E’s 2025 seasonal aggregation of versatile energy (SAVE) virtual power plant. In this demonstration, Sunrun receives information from PG&E about distribution trait and helps in turn to analyze PG&E the contributions of distributed energy sources. This cooperation will support the development of new long-term programs to meet the load-shifting goals of the California Energy Commission, while local reliability is also being improved.
“Virtuele elektriciteitscentrales spelen een belangrijke rol in de Future Clean Energy in Californië en we zijn trots op onze klanten die de leiding geven met hun acceptatie van schone energie. Elke dag kijken we naar nieuwe en betere manieren om te leveren voor onze woonplaats, terwijl we zorgen voor veiligheid, betrouwbaarheid en veerkracht voor onze klanten,” zei Patti Poppe, CEO van PG & E Corporation.
The delivery of targeted electricity to local PG&E circuits will use the deep existing partnerships of Sunrun with leading companies Tesla and Lunar Energy. Sunrun will use an advanced application of the Grid Services platform from Tesla to optimize PowerWall batteries to offer an exact amount of electricity to different locations at specific times. Likewise, Sunrun will use the AI-compatible prediction of Lunar Energy via its Gridshare software platform to send exactly different non-tesla battery types to meet local grid needs.
This collaboration marks the second time that Sunrun and PG&E work to create a virtual power plant to support the Power Grid of California. Both partnerships emphasize the ability of Sunrun to design virtual power plants and quickly use that meet the specific needs of grid operators. Local Peakshift capacity will be operationalized in just a few months, which demonstrates the speed and efficiency of Sunrun’s virtual power plants.
Sunrun customers who are registered in local Peakshift Power receive a one-off payment of $ 150 per battery for sharing their stored solar energy with their communities, while Sunrun is compensated for managing battery shipments. Registered batteries always retain at least a back -upres reserve of 20% to guarantee the availability of electricity at the houses of customers in the case of a power outage.
With 156,000 residential battery systems throughout the country, Sunrun can support targeted utilities and programs throughout the state. Sunrun’s Grid Services platform and subscription model ensure flexibility when it comes to registering customers in different programs to achieve the highest value for the company, its customers and the net.
News item from Sunrun
