New Yorkers participate in virtual power plant
U.S. residential VPP capacity reached 40 GW by mid-2025; Sunrun-Tesla partnership scaled to 16.8 GW across 9M homes. For data center operators, distributed residential capacity now absorbs peak demand, reducing grid bottlenecks and enabling faster regional deployment without decade-long transmission expansion.
Decentralized capacity enters the mainstream as electricity demand strains infrastructure, forcing a change in U.S. power markets and grid design.