Sunrun has enrolled almost 1,800 prospects, together with 2,000 batteries, in its PowerOn Puerto Rico digital energy plant program, which has been supplying vitality from solar-plus-storage methods to the island’s grid since final fall.
The corporate is the biggest participant in Puerto Rico’s Battery Emergency Demand Response Program. When the island’s electrical utility supplier, LUMA, foresees a provide shortfall, Sunrun dispatches saved photo voltaic vitality from enrolled prospects’ batteries to stabilize the grid.
“The resilience of the folks of Puerto Rico is really exceptional. They constantly step as much as assist their neighborhood by sharing their saved photo voltaic vitality and bettering vitality reliability for everybody,” says Sunrun CEO Mary Powell.
“LUMA has already known as upon Sunrun a dozen instances since final fall to activate our digital energy plant, with a number of of these being emergency occasions, that means outages had been imminent. It’s unbelievable to be a part of a program that’s making an instantaneous optimistic impression.”
