Sunrun's Newest California Power Plant Delivers Essential Power to the Grid During Heat Wave

Sunrun customers' batteries supplied the grid with an average of 48 megawatts each night, enough to power up to 48,000 homes—a city the size of Santa Monica—and peaked at 51 megawatts, exceeding the capacity of several costly and polluting gas-fired peaker plants in California. Home solar and battery systems are modernizing, transforming, and strengthening the electric grid. "We are so grateful that we can not only provide customers with a greater sense of energy independence, resilience, and affordability ...