To apply for the PowerOn Puerto Rico Program, open your Tesla mobile App and click “Virtual Power Plant” on your home screen. Review the program information and click “Agree and Apply.”

Your Tesla app will be updated if you are approved for the Program. 

If you don’t have the Virtual Power Plant menu option in your App, you may be ineligible, or the program enrollment has concluded. If you believe you are missing the application in error, please contact Sunrun at grid_ops@sunrun.com with your name and home address. 

Typically, your Powerwall charges from onsite solar energy and powers your home when solar is unavailable or if a power outage occurs. Your Powerwall recharges from solar energy the next day, or when power is restored. 

As a participant in PowerOn Puerto Rico, your battery will behave similarly to the current settings, and will export excess energy to the grid, earning you cash rewards. This benefit is in addition to the Net Metering credits that you also receive for solar power generation exported to the grid. 

During a grid event, your Powerwall(s) will discharge stored energy to your home and to the grid, up to your backup reserve. 

You will be notified of all grid events, and be given the chance to opt-out or adjust your backup reserve settings beforehand. In the event of a grid outage, your Powerwall’s stored energy will be fully available to power your home.

In the event of a grid outage or an emergency weather event, all energy stored in your battery system will be available to you for backup power. Your battery will NOT discharge for grid purposes when there is an outage or weather event. Your Storm Watch feature will not be impacted by participating in PowerOn Puerto Rico.

Upon enrollment, you'll receive a reward payment of $1.00 per kWh for each grid event. That adds up fast! 

For each event, you can decide what percent of your Powerwall’s energy you want to reserve for backup power. 

With a backup reserve of 40%, your Powerwall can discharge 7.4 kWh, earning you $7.40 for the event. This amounts to $555 for an estimated 75 events over the year! 

The table below shows the estimated earnings depending on the backup reserve you set. 

†A small margin of energy is reserved to maintain battery health and inverter functionality, in addition to the backup reserve you set in your Tesla App.

Once you are successfully enrolled, you will be eligible to participate in grid events. Sunrun will distribute payments to you twice a year based on the energy discharged. You will receive a prepaid Visa gift card in February 2024 for the amount you've earned during the first six months of the program, and again when the program ends after July 2024. Sunrun reserves the right to report all payments as income where required by law.