Tesla Virtual Power Plant

I'm not OP, but the timing context of this post is important: Today, California has issued a FlexAlert, and Powerwalls in PG&E and SCE will start discharging at 6pm to help reduce load on the grid. It's not a daily action, but it's emergency support when the grid needs it the most. And the time window when it happens is important: Powerwalls are contributing to to reduce load when the grid needs it the most . It's not meant to support the entire grid, just directly attack the problem at the time where every Watt and Watt-hour counts. You don't need to own Powerwall to benefit from this, just like how you don't own the peaker plants that typically spark up at these times. You benefit because there's a big chance that there won't be rolling blackouts in California this afternoon—distributed assets like this can be dispatched. Dispatch Info: [link] A VPP tracker in the Tesla community: [link] Some technical details of how Tesla VPPs work, as organized distributed systems: [this video] CAISO Grid Outlook: [link]