Sunrun’s ‘CalReady’ Power Plant Supports California’s Grid with 16,200 Home Solar-Plus-Storage Systems
09 5월 2024 - 5:01AM
Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the nation’s leading provider of clean energy
as a subscription service, has networked more than 16,200
customers’ solar-plus-storage systems to support California’s
electrical grid during the hot summer months. Sunrun’s CalReady
power plant will reduce strain on the grid by supplying critical
energy to communities that need it throughout California in order
to reduce costs and help prevent power emergencies.
For the second year in a row, Sunrun is
demonstrating how uniquely capable, reliable and readily available
its solar-plus-storage systems are as an essential grid
solution. In the summer of 2023, Sunrun’s Peak Power Rewards
program supplied Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) up to
32 megawatts of power during evening peak hours from 8,500
customers’ batteries. This summer, Sunrun is expected to roughly
double that capacity and participant number for the statewide
Demand Side Grid Support program.
“We are on the forefront of a customer-led revolution to a
cleaner, more affordable clean energy future. When presented with
the opportunity to help, Sunrun’s customers always step up to be
part of the solution,” said Sunrun CEO Mary Powell. “By sharing
their clean solar power, they are making California’s grid more
resilient for everyone. Sunrun’s CalReady is far and away the
largest virtual power plant in the country and serves as a model
for what the electric grid of the future should look like.”
Designed and administered by the California Energy Commission,
the Demand Side Grid Support program is part of California’s
Strategic Reliability Reserve which aims to boost energy supplies
during heat waves, wildfires and other extreme events. As the tens
of thousands of enrolled batteries from aggregators stabilize the
grid, the risk of rolling blackouts is reduced.
As the largest aggregator in the Demand Side Grid Support
program, Sunrun will monitor and dispatch its customers’ enrolled
batteries, making it a hassle-free experience. Sunrun customers
enrolled in CalReady will be compensated for sharing their stored
solar energy with the grid and Sunrun will be paid for dispatching
the batteries.
“A Sunrun customer’s battery just got more rewarding in
California,” Powell said. “A typical customer won’t even notice
that they’re sharing their stored power to bolster the grid while
getting compensated for doing so. As a storage-first company, we
are all about stacking benefits to provide the most value to our
customers, communities and grid partners.”
CalReady will be available to support California’s grid each day
from 4 to 9 p.m. from May through October—the time of day and
season when there is the greatest demand for energy and the grid is
most vulnerable to outages. Sunrun customers’ batteries will still
retain, at minimum, a backup reserve of 20% so that they can
continue to power their homes in the event of a local power
outage.
“The benefit of Sunrun’s fleet of many thousand batteries is
that they can be orchestrated in unison. It’s the scale, speed and
capacity that makes Sunrun’s virtual power plants so valuable,”
said Chris Rauscher, Sunrun’s Head of Grid Services. “Just like how
a centralized fossil fuel power plant is controlled and dispatched
by a single entity, so too is Sunrun’s CalReady virtual power
plant—making it a powerful contributor to California’s grid.
Because CalReady is a distributed resource spread across households
statewide, it’s more resilient and adaptable when compared to a
physical power plant.”
During the five months of the program, the California Energy
Commission could call upon Sunrun’s enrolled solar-plus-storage
systems up to 35 times to supply supplemental energy to the grid
and the communities that it supports. Enrollment in Sunrun’s
CalReady is ongoing and, with customer outreach continuing,
participation is expected to grow.
About SunrunSunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN)
revolutionized the solar industry in 2007 by removing financial
barriers and democratizing access to locally-generated, renewable
energy. Today, Sunrun is the nation’s leading provider of clean
energy as a subscription service, offering residential solar and
storage with no upfront costs. Sunrun’s innovative products and
solutions can connect homes to the cleanest energy on earth,
providing them with energy security, predictability, and peace of
mind. Sunrun also manages energy services that benefit communities,
utilities, and the electric grid while enhancing customer value.
Discover more at www.sunrun.com
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