Lunar Energy’s Gridshare software will enable new battery and other programs to reduce customer energy bills and harmful emissions
Redwood City/ Sunnyvale, CA — Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE) and Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) are jointly launching cutting-edge demand flexibility efforts, highlighted by a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) that will support a range of new programs.
The DERMS is a powerful software platform that both agencies will use as a foundation to expand their clean and smart energy programs. The new platform will enable participating customers to easily, automatically and comfortably shift daily electricity use – earning them direct bill savings, while also helping to reduce grid costs and harmful emissions.
PCE and SVCE have contracted with Mountain View-based Lunar Energy for its Gridshare DERMS platform to connect, control and optimize devices located at customer sites.
Examples of flexible customer devices include battery energy storage, electric heat pump water heating, smart thermostats and building energy management systems at commercial facilities. To maximize reliability and affordability, particularly in the context of an increasingly renewable and intermittent generation mix, it is essential to align flexible loads with hours when electricity is cleanest, most abundant and at its lowest cost.
“Lunar’s Gridshare DERMS platform will underpin PCE’s strategy to expand electrification and clean power, while keeping the grid reliable for customers,” Peninsula Clean Energy CEO Shawn Marshall said.
“Leveraging the smart, electric technologies that our customers are already adopting showcases a major benefit of electrification – going electric can also make our grid smarter. We are excited to offer these services, which are part of the many solutions needed to achieve a 100 percent clean grid statewide,” Monica Padilla, SVCE CEO said.
“We developed Gridshare to deliver the benefits of clean and affordable energy to everyone. Electrifying every energy resource in the home is half of the solution, but the other half is connecting and optimizing these distributed energy resources to bring down costs and increase reliability for everyone on the grid — the core benefit of the Gridshare platform. As both a customer and supplier to both PCE and SVCE, I’m personally thrilled that the Gridshare platform will help achieve their goals.” Kunal Girotra, Lunar Energy Founder and CEO said.
Lunar’s Gridshare platform will enable customers to draw new benefits from their devices and will deliver opportunities for PCE and SVCE to capture new value streams.
PCE and SVCE aim to aggregate up to 25 megawatts of dispatchable capacity over the next five years from customer-sited resources via numerous programs and initiatives.
New dispatchable capacity will be enabled by integrating devices installed under existing programs, such as PCE’s Solar + Battery Savings and GovPV programs and the SVCE Home Rebates and Multifamily Retrofits programs. In addition, PCE and SVCE will look for opportunities to develop new demand flexibility solutions that are enabled by the DERMS platform as new programs are launched.
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About Peninsula Clean Energy
Peninsula Clean Energy is a Community Choice Energy agency. It is the official electricity provider for the communities of San Mateo County and Los Banos. Founded in 2016 with a mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the agency serves a population of 810,000 by providing more than 3,600 gigawatt hours annually of electricity that is 50 percent renewable and 100 percent clean and at lower cost than PG&E. As a community-led, not-for-profit agency, Peninsula Clean Energy makes significant investments in its communities to expand access to sustainable and affordable energy solutions. Follow us at PenCleanEnergy.com, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.
About Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Silicon Valley Clean Energy is a not-for-profit, community-owned agency providing electricity from renewable and clean sources to more than 275,000 residential and commercial customers in 13 Santa Clara County jurisdictions. As a public agency, net revenues are returned to the community to keep rates competitive and promote clean energy programs. Silicon Valley Clean Energy is advancing innovative solutions to fight climate change by decarbonizing the grid, transportation, and buildings. Learn more at svcleanenergy.org.
About Lunar Energy
Lunar Energy Inc. powers homes around the world with endless clean energy. Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy engineers the world’s best clean energy products to electrify homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. The fast-growing, global company is delivering an ecosystem of all-electric products to make electricity greener, air cleaner, and energy more secure and reliable for everyone. Learn more about the company and career opportunities at www.lunarenergy.com and follow Lunar Energy on Instagram and LinkedIn for more information.
Media Contacts
Darren Goode | Peninsula Clean Energy | 202- 550-6619 | dgoode@pencleanenergy.com
Pamela Leonard | Silicon Valley Clean Energy | pamela.leonard@svcleanenergy.org | 408-549-2671
