Orange & Rockland has received approval to install Sunrun’s rooftop solar and battery systems. It’s part of a “virtual power plant project” supporting New York’s transition to clean, locally-generated electricity. O&R spokesman Mike Donovan says Sunrun’s Brightbox home battery systems take pressure off the electric grid, reducing the load on O&R’s heavily-used distribution systems. Donovan says the benefit to O&R customers is clean energy at a discounted rate…
Clean energy produced from rooftop solar panels gets stored in Sunrun’s Brightbox batteries during the day. During an outage, the batteries provide backup electricity. For more information about Sunrun, visit their website, www.SunRun.com.