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Is Sunrun (RUN) Quietly Redefining Grid Reliability With Its Expanding Virtual Power Plant Footprint?
In early 2026, Sunrun reported that in 2025 it rapidly scaled its distributed power plant programs, enrolling more than 106,000 customers and dispatching nearly 18 gigawatt-hours of home battery energy across 17 programs to support stressed U.S. grids.
This expansion signals Sunrun’s growing role as a source of flexible, dispatchable capacity comparable to fossil-fuel peaker plants, highlighting how residential solar-plus-storage is becoming integrated into mainstream grid reliability...