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TXU Offering Residential Battery Aggregation Program, Names Partner Provider
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In partnership with Sunrun, TXU Energy is offering to Texas residential customers a battery rewards program which will offer incentives to customers to allow TXU & Sunrun to control customers' home battery systems, creating a virtual power plant
The program is open to TXU customers with Sunrun home solar panels and solar-connected batteries. Batteries offered by Sunrun have included LG Chem, SolarEdge, and Tesla batteries
For customers meeting the foregoing eligibility requirement, such customers may opt into the TXU Energy & Sunrun Battery Rewards program, while being served under any TXU retail electricity plan. The TXU Energy & Sunrun Battery Rewards program is a separate program and is not a retail electricity plan
Under the TXU Energy & Sunrun Battery Rewards program, customers will receive $200 in prepaid digital rewards cards annually ($100 every 6 months) for allowing TXU & Sunrun to network customers' batteries together and manage the discharging of stored solar power, either for use by the customer for their home, or for export to the grid, during times of grid stress
Under the program, 20% of a participating customer's battery capacity will be reserved, for customer use during an outage, regardless of the make and model of the battery. The battery will not send any power to the grid during an outage.
There may be up to 300 dispatch events in any given year under the program. Dispatch events will last no more than 4 hours each
TXU said that TXU Energy & Sunrun Battery Rewards customers may continue to participate in TXU Energy's solar buyback plans, which credit solar energy system owners for the electricity added to the grid.
TXU said that it paid over $10 million in solar buyback credits to customers last year
TXU's parent Vistra confirmed to EnergyChoiceMatters.com that the specific TXU Energy & Sunrun Battery Rewards program is not part of the ERCOT Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot project at this time.
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September 11, 2024
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Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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