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Dive Brief:
Sunrun, Tesla and Renew Home could deliver nearly 17 GW of distributed energy capacity to unlock headroom in an increasingly congested U.S. power grid, the companies said Wednesday.
The “capacity-as-a-solution” agreement combines the capabilities of the country’s three largest home energy providers. Sunrun and Tesla’s hundreds of thousands of solar-and-battery customers are concentrated in key data center markets like Texas, California and Virginia, Chris Rauscher, Sunrun’s head of grid services and electrification, told Utility Dive. Renew Home has more than 8 million smart thermostats and other devices under management.
The companies’ offering addresses the “speed to power” challenge facing hyperscalers and utilities as data centers race to connect to the grid while providing “direct, tangible benefits to middle-class American families” via payments for participating in grid service or capacity programs, Rauscher said in an interview.
