By Sunrun Inc.
Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, comments on the partnership between Sunrun, Renew Home, and Tesla, and their potential projects.
“This is a brilliant way to leverage hundreds of thousands of distributed resources located at American homes to get fast and inexpensive capacity to help power vital growth. Leveraging homeowners’ investments in batteries to relieve unprecedented constraints on the system that traditional generation development is not ready to overcome demonstrates the real power of flexible distributed resources.”
Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), Renew Home, and Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA), today announced an agreement to deliver more than 16 gigawatts1 of flexible energy capacity to hyperscalers and utilities. The agreement establishes a framework for three of the largest players in home energy to aggregate millions of existing demand side and energy exporting devices in states across the country into local, turnkey solutions that require no additional hardware, software, interconnection, water, or land usage for offtaking parties.
Deployable in months, not years, this capacity-as-a-solution framework creates headroom on the existing grid by freeing up transmission capacity, easing congestion on distribution infrastructure, and extending the duration and depth of available capacity, all while helping American households lower energy bills, earn rewards, and power through outages.
Together, the companies would form the largest distributed power plant in the country — capable of injecting net new electrons onto the grid from home batteries paired with solar generation while simultaneously shifting household load during peak demand hours. The combined 16-gigawatt resource draws dispatchable capacity from hundreds of thousands of home battery systems operated by Sunrun and Tesla, alongside flexible peak capacity from more than 8 million smart thermostats and devices managed by Renew Home.
