Tesla’s Home Batteries Just Powered a City — What the Record 580 MW Virtual Power Plant Means for Canada
On September 9, 2026, more than 140,000 home batteries across California — about 110,000 of them Tesla Powerwalls — discharged a record 580 megawatts to the grid during a heat wave. It was the largest residential virtual power plant (VPP) event ever recorded: thousands of small batteries in people’s garages, coordinated by software, doing the […]