Tag: sunrun

  • Fresno Housing, Sunrun to power 48 homes in disadvantaged community

    Fresno Housing, in partnership with Sunrun, celebrated a new solar installation at Blossom Trail Commons, an affordable housing community in Sanger, Calif. The project, which is located in a CalEnviroScreen disadvantaged community, provides solar energy to 48 homes and saves each family an average of $70 per month on their electricity bills through the use of virtual……

  • Sunrun affordable housing project includes solar job training for residents

    BRIDGE Housing, in partnership with Sunrun cut the ribbon on a new solar installation at Villa Loma Apartments, an affordable housing community in Carlsbad, Calif. The new installation serves 344 families and will help residents save an average of more than $60 per month on their electricity bills and an expected $7.5 million in total……

  • California net billing is here – and so are these NEM 3.0 battery storage deals

    California’s net billing tariff era (NEM 3.0) is officially upon us starting April 15. Net billing drastically reduces the value of solar energy via lower compensation on export rates and complex hourly pricing. This effectively forces new solar customers to adopt batteries to store that excess production to self-consume later, and/or export more strategically, if……

  • PG&E launches virtual power plant program with Sunrun

    Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) are looking to enroll up to 7,500 new and existing residential home solar and battery systems in PG&E’s service area into the new Energy Efficiency Summer Reliability Program. This is a virtual power plant (VPP) program capable of discharging 30 MW back to the grid. The VPP……

  • Google Nest, General Motors headline RMI’s Virtual Power Plant Partnership

    Virtual power plants (VPP) are an intriguing path to a more efficient and cost-effective electric grid. VPPs involve the aggregation and coordination of distributed energy resources (like homes with solar + battery storage or smart thermostats or even EVs) to work together as an asset on the grid. Customers themselves or their authorized energy management……