SolarCity and Partners Announce Smart Energy Homes Pilot Project
Project will demonstrate how solar PV, smart inverters, and storage can advance the electric grid
SAN MATEO, Calif. — SolarCity has announced a smart energy homes demonstration project in partnership with the SunSpec Alliance and Southern California Edison, where SolarCity will install rooftop solar PV, batteries, controllable thermostats, and smart inverters on 50 homes in the Southern California Edison territory. The team will demonstrate how smart energy homes, combining numerous distributed technologies, can be deployed and aggregated to advance the electric grid.
In addition to driving cost savings for residential customers, SolarCity intends to aggregate the portfolio of the 50 homes to provide distribution grid support as well as ancillary services into the electric wholesale market. SolarCity will use the data from the project to show the benefits of smart energy homes.