Sonnen, home battery manufacturer, today launches sonnenConnect, a consumer battery program in California through a partnership with installer Baker Home Energy as part of PowerOn! Smart battery program. The sonnen batteries combined with the sonnenVPP software will enable customers to earn compensation for feeding energy back into the grid through this virtual power plant model.
sonnen will proactively manage batteries enrolled in the sonnenConnect program by offsetting locally stored solar energy from peak demand periods in response to price signals embedded in usage tariffs to minimize customers’ electricity bills . The program includes Sonnen Battery’s participation in a variety of dynamic grid service markets, producing monthly cash payments for enrolled customers, while helping to decongest and decarbonize California’s energy grid.
The unique combination of proactive bill management and grid utility compensation provides a sustainable alternative to Net Energy Metering (NEM) while supporting the broader energy transition in a way that solar alone can not. The impact of grid-interactive smart batteries has already been demonstrated in virtual power plants across the country.
“We are honored to launch sonnenConnect California in partnership with Baker Home Energy’s PowerOn! Program. Baker Home Energy is an industry-leading solar contractor renowned for quality, customer service and pioneering new technologies,” said Blake Richetta, president and CEO of sonnen. “With the Baker team’s dedicated initiative to bring this innovation to California consumers, I am confident that we will achieve the necessary scale of smart, grid-interactive batteries in California required to make power outage alerts, such as those that we have recently experienced, a concern of the past.”
“By leading with the PowerOn!” Battery Program, powered by sonnenConnect, Baker Home Energy is changing the way solar power is sold in California,” said Mike Teresso, CEO of Baker Home Energy. “We see smart batteries as the heart of a clean energy future and sonnen’s capabilities give us the potential to revolutionize the way rooftop PV is sold and used in California. sonnenConnect enables us to offer our solar plus battery customers the ultimate combination of lower electricity bills, access to backup power resiliency and continuous compensation for grid services that provides an alternative to net billing.
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