Sunrun enrolled nearly 1,800 customers on its PowerOn Puerto Rico power plant

Sunrun has now enrolled nearly 1,800 customers-totaling more than 2,000 batteries-in its PowerOn Puerto Rico virtual power plant. The program has been supplying dependable energy from solar-plus-storage systems to the island’s energy grid since last fall. Sunrun is the largest participant in Puerto Rico’s Battery Emergency Demand Response Program and will soon be the first aggregator to compensate customers for their participation. “The resilience of the people of Puerto Rico is truly remarkable. They consistently step up to help their community by sharing their stored solar energy and improving energy reliability for everyone,” said Sunrun CEO Mary Powell. “LUMA has already called upon Sunrun a dozen times since last fall to activate our virtual power plant, with several of those being emergency events-meaning outages were imminent. It’s incredible to be part of a program that’s making an immediate positive impact.”