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Virtual Power Plants: The Grid Capacity Nobody Had to Build
On the evening of Sept. 9, 2026, with a heat wave pushing electricity demand across California toward its limits, more than 140,000 home batteries started discharging at the same time.
Summary
On the evening of Sept. 9, 2026, with a heat wave pushing electricity demand across California toward its limits, more than 140,000 home batteries started discharging at the same time. Over a three-hour window, they sent more than 580 megawatts of power into the state's grid , roughly what a large conventional power plant puts out. Nobody broke ground on anything and no fuel got burned.
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