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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 08/16/2025 12:34 EDT

Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts

Puerto Rico expects 93 different power outages this summer, reports the Washington Post.

But they also note that "roughly 1 in 10 Puerto Rican homes now have a battery and solar array for backup power" which have also "become a crucial source of backup power for the entire island grid."

A network of 69,000 home batteries can generate as much electricity as a small natural gas turbine during an emergency, temporarily covering about 2 percent of the island's energy needs when things go wrong... "It has ver

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