US solar installation company Sunrun has completed its first successful season operating a residential Virtual Power Plant (VPP) in the wholesale capacity market, which the company says is “the first of its kind in the country”.Sunrun’s New England VPP injects more than 1.8 GWh of energy back into the US grid from June to August, and thousands of Sunrun solar homes in New England receive the most intense solar power from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. It was stored between the hours of 00:00.
“VPP also helps minimize the use of expensive and polluting power plants, while lowering energy costs and providing a reliable power supply throughout the region,” the company said in a statement.
In a report released in August, ISO-NE detailed how domestic solar power helped keep wholesale system demand below the average forecast during the heatwave in July.
It will reduce the intense energy demand to the grid
Backing the strong wave of demand for residential solar solutions in the US and adding more than 34,000 solar power plants in the second quarter of this year, Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun, said, “Integrating local home solar and battery systems into wholesale markets. It is tremendous that we can work with ISO-NE for
“This is a great example of radical collaboration and demonstrates the importance of every market operator leveraging local clean energy sources to solve capacity constraints and grid reliability,” Powell continued.
Sunrun said that when combined to form VPPs, household solar and batteries can significantly support the grid and reduce peak demand.
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