
Sunrun Shares Rise on Deal With Tesla, Renew Home to Supply Power for Data Centers
Sunrun (RUN) shares jumped 13% in Wednesday trading after the company agreed with Tesla (TSLA) and Renew Home to deliver more than 16 gigawatts of flexible energy capacity to hyperscalers and utilities.The companies will aggregate existing residential battery systems, smart thermostats, and electric vehicles across the country into a unified "virtual power plant" without any additional hardware, software, interconnection, water, or land usage, according to a joint press release. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.The power will be drawn from hundreds of thousands of home battery systems operated by Sunrun and Tesla, alongside flexible peak capacity from more than 8 million smart thermostats and devices managed by Renew Home."America's grid faces mounting pressure from data centers, electrification, and manufacturing growth that no single infrastructure solution can solve fast enough," Colby Hastings, Tesla's director of residential energy, said in the statement. "A huge piece of the answer is already in place."The companies have more than 300 megawatts available for immediate deployment in Virginia's Data Center Alley and projects the capacity will grow to at least 500 megawatts by 2030.Tesla shares fell 1.4%.Price: $14.45, Change: $+1.64, Percent Change: +12.76%