On September 28, sonnen, a leading German home energy storage manufacturer, made an announcement that it hopes to further expand and upgrade its products to form a more complete virtual power plant (VPP) operating system in the form of installing a home community-level battery system in conjunction with a solar PV power generation portfolio.

 

 

 

 

As of August of this year, California has a utility-scale battery scale base of over 3GW and a distributed battery storage base of hundreds of megawatts, which is the starting point for the interests of Germany's Sonnen to expand and replicate its products in the United States.

 

 

Sonnen Energy was founded in 2010 to produce battery storage systems for private households and small businesses. The company is not only the leading home energy storage company in Germany and worldwide, but also a market leader in renewable energy. By 2020, Sonnen has complete products and solutions from batteries, to solar energy storage systems (without photovoltaic products), and virtual power plants (VPP).

 

 

 

 

The energy storage system, in addition to the SonnenBatterie battery, has an integrated inverter, an energy management unit, an electronic meter for detecting PV generation and supplying power to the grid side. So the Sonnen home energy storage system, without PV products, is its promotion of virtual power plants (VPP), usually sold only to households with PV or BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaic) manufacturers, and is its current challenge to open up the foreign virtual power plant (VPP) market, as well as where the opportunities for friendly companies lie.

 

 

Virtual Power Plant (VPP), is the merging of multiple individual generators, storage facilities and consumers into a virtual network built, controlled through central software, making each spatially dispersed units from each other (such as thousands of SonnenBattery in community homes across the country), forming a large virtual battery. The Sonnen Virtual Power Plant (VPP) also enables customer-side households to participate in the electricity market, selling or sharing the electricity generated by their respective "power plants" and stabilizing the grid system.

 

 

 

The Sonnen Virtual Power Plant (VPP) system was originally promoted only in the European home storage market, but the positive development of PV home storage in the United States and Australia has led to the establishment of subsidiaries there as well. This time, with the premise of high electricity costs in Europe, Sonnen's planned deployment of virtual power plants (VPP) in California has become a new area that is being looked at in the home energy storage market today, and may drive BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaic) to become the new hot track.