Sunrun and Tesla Partner to Boost Texas Energy Grid with Aggregated Solar Power Program

Sunrun announced today that it has expanded its support for the Texas energy grid through a partnership with Tesla Electric, a retail electricity provider operated by Tesla Energy Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA). The partnership has already enrolled over 150 Sunrun customers in an aggregated power program and plans to scale up enrollments while dispatching stored solar energy from at-home batteries to quickly increase electricity reserves on the grid during peak consumption periods.

This ongoing partnership marks Sunrun’s first operational aggregated power plant program in Texas and comes just weeks after Hurricane Beryl caused widespread power outages affecting nearly 3 million homes and businesses. It also follows three years after the state’s devastating and deadly power grid meltdown during the winter storm in February 2021. Since these catastrophic events, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state’s grid operator, has started adopting measures to diversify and strengthen the power grid, including through the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources Task Force.

“Texas grid has already experienced a traumatic spring and summer due to weather vulnerabilities and we know the state also needs more power to meet soaring demand on a daily basis. We’re eager to bring Sunrun’s on-demand battery response expertise to help make the grid more resilient against outages,” added Sunrun CEO Mary Powell. “Texas families are increasingly opting to add batteries to their solar installations. On-site energy storage not only provides homeowners peace of mind with outage protection but also enables them to participate in programs like these by contributing to solutions that better the lives of those in their communities.”