Comments on: SunPower SunVault battery now accepted in VPP programs, first through ConnectedSolutions https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/sunpower-sunvault-battery-now-accepted-in-vpp-programs-first-through-connectedsolutions/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/sunpower-sunvault-battery-now-accepted-in-vpp-programs-first-through-connectedsolutions/#comment-119499 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:41:28 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=96646#comment-119499 ““With battery storage, homeowners gain energy independence and control for their household, even as blackouts and power shut-offs increase,” said Peter Faricy, CEO of SunPower. “Now with the SunPower VPP, our customers can choose to participate in programs that will help stabilize the grid for their community while simultaneously offsetting the cost of their system. Citizens and utilities working together to provide reliable and renewable energy is the future of the grid.””

One would think in “progressive” California something like this would be anchored in the NEM 3.0 process, it doesn’t look like something this simple will be enabled with the ‘new’ NEM 3.0 in California. Right now the three major IOUs in the State are holding sway in rates and application of those rates to credited energy pushed back onto the grid. As proposed, it’s not a “net metering” program, it is a [net billing] program where excess energy sent to the grid will be credited at the “wholesale energy” rate.

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