Sunrun dispatches home batteries to provide emergency power in Puerto Rico

Sunrun (RUN) has begun dispatching more than 37,000 home batteries to provide emergency power to Puerto Rico’s grid operator to address insufficient centralized electricity generation coinciding with increased demand due to high temperatures. The additional energy provided by Sunrun’s distributed power plant relieves grid strain and helps prevent rotating blackouts. Sunrun’s enrolled dispatchable power capacity has increased more than tenfold since last summer to support the island’s struggling grid. From July through October this year, electric utility operator LUMA expects more than 75 energy shortfall events requiring Sunrun’s fleet of batteries to dispatch energy-with each dispatch bolstering the grid for four consecutive hours.