Tesla has joined forces with EnergyHub, a leading provider of energy management systems, to offer an easier way for electricity customers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to support their local power grids. Through the Tesla app, customers can now effortlessly sign up for the ConnectedSolutions program, EnergyHub’s major initiative that turns individual batteries into […]
Tesla has been approved by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to begin a “statewide market design pilot” for its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program, according to statements made by an official on LinkedIn on Sunday (via electrek). Arushi Sharma Frank, U.S. energy markets policy lead for Tesla, said that the pilot could now […]
A virtual power plant (VPP) project consisting exclusively of Tesla Powerwalls on the island of Miyakojima in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, has now become the largest of its kind in the country. The Miyakojima VPP project began in 2021 and today comprises more than 300 Powerwalls, Tesla said in a Japanese blog post. It is the […]
Tesla’s first California Virtual Power Plant event on Wednesday had thousands of homes providing electricity to the grid across the state Tesla and PG&E had 2,342 fleet homes actively using the Virtual Power Plant program in Northern California on Wednesday, as shown in a screenshot of the mobile app during the first power event on […]
With over 1,500 California Tesla Powerwall users already enrolled in the company’s Virtual Power Plant program as of May, the joint program with PG&E is beginning to roll out some of its first power-sharing events. Some Tesla Virtual Power Plant customers in California are beginning to receive notifications for their first power plant events, as […]
The Tesla Virtual Power Plant program partnering with PG&E has already enrolled over 1,500 users in Northern California, and now the company is offering the program to those in Southern California, too. Tesla has extended the Virtual Power Plant program to Southern California with utility provider Southern California Edison, as shown in a screenshot of […]
Tesla has joined a task force chaired by CenterPoint Energy that aims to launch an Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (AEDR) pilot project in the state of Texas (via @SawyerMerritt). Among other things, the program seeks to create a model for virtual power plants (VPPs) to export energy to Texas’ energy grid. A VPP is a […]
