20% of US Rooftop Solar Systems Are Sunrun Systems, 45% of New Battery Installations Are Sunrun

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:55:34 +0000

Sunrun, the largest rooftop solar company in the United States, recently hit a big milestone — one million customers. We recently sat down with Chris Rauscher, Head of Grid Services & Virtual Power Plants at Sunrun, to discuss this and related matters. Listen to the podcast via the following embedded … [continued]

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Ford CEO Jim Farley Targets 19 Million Potential EV Buyers With New Ford Power Promise

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:46:56 +0000

Easy, convenient home EV charging takes center stage as Ford launches new “Ford Power Promise” to attract potential electric vehicle buyers.

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Rooftop Solar & Virtual Power Plants Take Center Stage As Oil & Gas Wilt

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:08:23 +0000

The rooftop solar and home energy storage trends are pushing the case to replace gas peaker plants with zero emission “virtual” power plants.

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Ford F-150 Lightning Is A Rolling Energy Storage Beast, & Sunrun Is Here For It

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:35:12 +0000

Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.

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Largest Virtual Power Plant in USA Supports California’s Grid with 16,200 Home Solar-Plus-Storage Systems

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 13:18:03 +0000

Sunrun creates the country’s largest virtual power plant to participate in statewide program designed to strengthen California’s stressed electrical grid and reduce blackouts by providing load generation during extreme events

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The Importance of Virtual Power Plants to Support America’s Energy Resilience

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:03:17 +0000

Extreme weather events, cybersecurity threats and volatility in energy markets at all levels puts intense strain on America’s power grid. Virtual power plants (VPP) are an important tool to secure the resiliency of this critical system. What is a VPP, you ask? As RMI puts it, VPPs are comprised of hundreds or thousands of households […]

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Sunrun Installed Almost A Gigawatt of Solar in 2022!

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:35:54 +0000

Sunrun, the leading provider of residential solar, storage and energy services in America, this week announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Sunrun says it added 37,359 customers, including 27,493 subscribers. Sunrun grew new installed solar energy capacity in 2022 by 25.2% […]

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PG&E Will Test Tesla & Sonnen Virtual Power Plant Technology

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:10:25 +0000

virtual power plantPG&E will test two types of virtual power plant technology this summer to determine which is best for supporting the utility grid.

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Revenge Of The Virtual Power Plants, Part Infinity

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:46:12 +0000

virtual power plants sunrun lunar energy gridshareVirtual power plants were virtually unknown just a few years ago, and now the floodgates are open thanks in part to a Trump-era ruling.

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New Rules, Incentives Shaping Solar-Plus-Storage Market

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:21:00 +0000

An evolving regulatory environment, expanded tax credits, and moves for more reliability and resilience in the power space are impacting the growth of solar-plus-storage installations. Several state utility

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