Virtual Power Plant
sonnenVPP: The Key to Energy Transition
The sonnenVPP is the key to our energy transition that provides clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone — a true win-win-win: for customers, communities, and our planet.
The foundation for a clean energy future that benefits everyone.
sonnen’s groundbreaking Virtual Power Plant (VPP) technology digitally links together local networks of sonnen residential and commercial batteries to form a single renewable power plant that is capable of deploying enough stored energy to reduce the use of traditional fossil fuels and lower CO2 emissions.
sonnenConnect
A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Program for sonnenHome battery owners.
Wattsmart Battery
VPP Program
A unique Virtual Power Plant Program from Rocky Mountain Power
Intelligent battery solutions
sonnen’s safe, long-lasting and eco-friendly energy storage solutions are built for daily performance as a VPP grid asset, providing industry-leading energy throughput over the lifetime of the batteries (see Warranty for details).
Virtual Power Plant software
The sonnenVPP software is the backbone that links and manages networks of intelligent batteries, forming scalable, renewable energy power plants that offer you benefits for providing a growing number of services to your local grid.
Innovative VPP programs
We've developed commercially operational VPP programs that deliver real results, available now in California, Puerto Rico, Texas, New England and expanding rapidly in the near future. Our sonnenConnect program allows you to enroll your energy storage system and earn rewards for allowing sonnen to optimize your battery to help support the grid.
An innovative energy model to grow your business
Learn how a partnership between sonnen (visionary pioneer in VPPs), the local utility (Rocky Mountain Power), and a local developer (The Wasatch Group) helped define a model for a sustainable energy future.
sonnenVPP: The Key to the Energy Transition
Digital large-scale storage keeps green power flowing reliably
The challenge: Wind and solar energy depend on the weather. These fluctuations push our power grids to their limits.The solution: The sonnenVPP connects thousands of sonnen batteries into a digital large-scale storage system. It can store renewable energy and feed it back into the grid when needed. This makes green energy more predictable and helps reduce peak loads on the grid.
Lower costs for the overall system
The challenge: Local grid overloads, the expansion of reserve power plants, and short-term electricity imports create high costs every year. These costs ultimately fall on all electricity customers through grid fees and energy prices.
The solution: The sonnenVPP helps reduce these costs by allowing home batteries, often underused in winter, to take on valuable tasks. Costly interventions by grid operators become less frequent, while solar power is fed into the grid more strategically. This eases pressure on the energy market and lowers costs for everyone in the long run.
Citizen energy instead of large power plants
The challenge: For a long time, the energy sector was centrally organized with large power plants and little opportunity for individual participation.
The solution: Virtual power plants connect decentralized energy producers and storage systems. This strengthens the role of citizens in the energy sector. Anyone with a sonnen battery can easily take responsibility for greater supply security and climate protection, while also benefiting financially.
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