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Sunrun and Tesla virtual power plant sets record with 580 MW dispatch to California grid

Sunrun and Tesla pooled more than 140,000 home batteries to send a record 580 MW to California's grid during a September 9 heat wave, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorded. The three-hour evening dispatch rivaled the output of several natural gas peaker plants and signals the growing scale of virtual power plants as grid assets.