Sunrun, America’s leading provider of residential solar and battery storage solutions, has entered an agreement with the distributed energy resource platform Voltus to supply energy capacity for AI hyperscalers. This collaboration targets power demand from rapidly growing data centers by utilizing Sunrun’s thousands of home-based solar-plus-storage systems in the PJM and MISO grid regions.
Voltus’ Bring Your Own Capacity™ (BYOC) program allows large electricity consumers, like AI hyperscalers, to offer flexible, firm capacity to the grid by leveraging distributed energy assets such as batteries and smart thermostats. These resources are orchestrated to reduce demand when the grid faces stress, enhancing grid reliability while providing financial incentives to participating homeowners and businesses.
This partnership builds on Voltus’ pioneering BYOC approach, which ensures that distributed resources contribute dependable capacity to support expanding electricity needs. By integrating Sunrun’s residential assets with Voltus’ flexibility platform, the two companies aim to provide cost-effective and immediately available capacity that strengthens grid stability as demand surges from data centers.
Sunrun’s CEO emphasized the importance of maximizing distributed energy resources nationwide to meet growing electricity needs. Voltus’ CEO highlighted how the collaboration increases the grid’s affordable, reliable, and flexible capacity by tapping into residential energy systems at scale.
Additionally, this alliance complements Sunrun’s recent initiative alongside Renew Home and Tesla, which seeks to unlock over 16 gigawatts of flexible capacity from a diverse mix of distributed energy technologies, including home batteries, solar panels, smart thermostats, and electric vehicles. These combined efforts accelerate the integration of distributed energy resources, providing swift and scalable energy solutions to utilities and data center operators.