Sunrun, Renew Home, and Tesla formed a partnership to aggregate home energy devices into a 16-gigawatt virtual power plant (VPP). The collaboration provides flexible energy capacity to utilities and large-scale consumers like data centers. This VPP ranks among the largest in the U.S.
The system combines hundreds of thousands of Sunrun and Tesla home batteries with millions of Renew Home smart devices. The initiative addresses grid strain caused by rapid growth in artificial intelligence and data center energy use.
This solution deploys in months, significantly faster than the years required for traditional power plant construction. The framework offers capacity-as-a-service to manage peak demand and reduce infrastructure costs. The program also creates a new revenue stream for residential solar and battery asset owners.