Sunrun’s ‘PowerOn Puerto Rico’ Virtual Power Plant Helps Island Avoid Rolling Blackouts - Seite 2

Sunrun and LUMA expect that there will be between 50 and 125 events per year that will require Sunrun’s fleet of enrolled systems to provide on-demand energy. Individual customers will be compensated for each power-sharing event. Even if there are only 75 events, which is on the lower-end of what the grid operator anticipates, Sunrun customers would earn an average of $550 and Sunrun will earn fees for managing the participation. If there are more events, Sunrun customers will earn even more.

“We want to give back to the community,” Koster said. “That’s the spirit of Puerto Rico—taking care of each other. This program allows us to take ownership and be caretakers of the grid.”

“Sunrun customers’ batteries create a power plant that helps keep the lights on for all Puerto Ricans without polluting or requiring land and years of costly construction,” said Chris Rauscher, Sunrun’s Head of Grid Services. “Sunrun has a proven track record of successfully operating virtual power plants across the country that have repeatedly shown that residential solar-plus-storage is a dependable resource that can be quickly aggregated to meet increasing energy demands and keep utility costs down for all ratepayers.”

With the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warning that a growing number of areas face resource capacity or energy risks over the next decade, Sunrun’s virtual power plant programs—like PowerOn Puerto Rico—are aimed at helping utilities match power production with increasing customer demand in order to prevent rolling blackouts.

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