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

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Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from 140,000 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 110,000 Tesla Powerwalls and 30,000-plus batteries from other manufacturers, enough to power every household in Sacramento County during peak hours.

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The model shows how distributed home batteries can solve peak-demand spikes; a Brattle Group report projects up to $206 million in net savings for Californians by 2028 from this kind of dispatch.

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