100,000 solar-charged batteries are already installed at California homes and businesses, adding up to nearly 1.7 gigawatts of capacity.

typical day in the life of a Sunrun solar-battery customer enrolled in the company's virtual power plant program with PG&E, with batteries charging up with midday solar and discharging that power to reduce the grid's peak demand in the evening.
typical day in the life of a Sunrun solar-battery customer enrolled in the company’s virtual power plant program with PG&E, with batteries charging up with midday solar and discharging that power to reduce the grid’s peak demand in the evening.

Sunrun project, launched last year, combined 8,500 residential solar-plus-storage systems to consistently discharge an average of just under 30 megawatts of battery power from 7 to 9 p.m. every weekday from August through October

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