Tag: sunrun
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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……
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Puerto Rico transforming its grid with 17-MW virtual power plant via Sunrun
Sunrun is connecting a 17 MW virtual power plant (VPP) in Puerto Rico to help rebuild and transform the island’s energy system. This VPP, consisting of more than 7,000 Sunrun home solar-plus-battery systems will be the first distributed large-scale storage program on the island. VPPs are great for lowering energy costs for all consumers, providing……
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You down with VPPs? How the virtual power plant movement is going so far
As has been the case with many good science fiction inventions of the last century, we are finally getting around to building virtual power plants (VPPs), or a software-and-wire linked network of small residential and commercial electricity generators, that together resemble a multimillion-dollar utility power plant. While the wires linkingRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Sunrun expands solar, storage offering in Texas
Sunrun Inc, the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services provider, is now available to residents of San Antonio. Sunrun launched in Texas in 2017, providing solar to residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas and then brought Brightbox battery storage to the Lone Star State in 2019.Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Sunrun expands solar, storage offering in Texas
Sunrun Inc, the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services provider, is now available to residents of San Antonio. Sunrun launched in Texas in 2017, providing solar to residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas and then brought Brightbox battery storage to the Lone Star State in 2019.Read More — Solar Builder magazine