Tesla and Sunrun’s virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid

Electrek
By Fred LambertSep 21, 2026, 9:03 am120 pts
Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from home batteries onto California’s grid during a heat wave on September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorded. The dispatch pooled more than 140,000 home batteries across the state and ran for a three-hour window in…

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