Peninsula Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy Jointly Launch Demand Flexibility Initiatives
Lunar
Energy’s Gridshare software will enable new battery and other programs
to reduce customer energy bills and harmful emissions
REDWOOD
CITY/SUNNYVALE, CA – November 3, 2025 – Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE)
and Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) are jointly launching
cutting-edge demand flexibility efforts, highlighted by a Distributed
Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) that will support a range of
new programs.
The
DERMS is a powerful software platform that both agencies will use as a
foundation to expand their clean and smart energy programs. The new
platform will enable participating customers to easily, automatically
and comfortably shift daily electricity use - earning them direct bill
savings, while also helping to reduce grid costs and harmful
emissions.
PCE
and SVCE have contracted with Mountain View-based Lunar Energy for its
Gridshare DERMS platform to connect, control and optimize devices
located at customer sites.
Examples
of flexible customer devices include battery energy storage, electric
heat pump water heating, smart thermostats and building energy
management systems at commercial facilities. To maximize reliability
and affordability, particularly in the context of an increasingly
renewable and intermittent generation mix, it is essential to align
flexible loads with hours when electricity is cleanest, most abundant
and at its lowest cost.
“Lunar’s
Gridshare DERMS platform will underpin PCE’s strategy to expand
electrification and clean power, while keeping the grid reliable for
customers,” Peninsula Clean Energy CEO Shawn Marshall said.
“Leveraging
the smart, electric technologies that our customers are already
adopting showcases a major benefit of electrification – going electric
can also make our grid smarter. We are excited to offer these services,
which are part of the many solutions needed to achieve a 100 percent
clean grid statewide,” SVCE CEO Monica Padilla said.
“We
developed Gridshare to deliver the benefits of clean and affordable
energy to everyone. Electrifying every energy resource in the home is
half of the solution, but the other half is connecting and optimizing
these distributed energy resources to bring down costs and increase
reliability for everyone on the grid — the core benefit of the
Gridshare platform. As both a customer and supplier to both PCE and
SVCE, I’m personally thrilled that the Gridshare platform will help
achieve their goals.” Lunar Energy Founder and CEO Kunal Girotra said.
Lunar’s
Gridshare platform will enable customers to draw new benefits from
their devices and will deliver opportunities for PCE and SVCE to
capture new value streams.
PCE
and SVCE aim to aggregate up to 25 megawatts of dispatchable capacity
over the next five years from customer-sited resources via numerous
programs and initiatives.
New
dispatchable capacity will be enabled by integrating devices installed
under existing programs, such as PCE’s Solar + Battery Savings and
GovPV programs and the SVCE Home Rebates and Multifamily Retrofits
programs. In addition, PCE and SVCE will look for opportunities to
develop new demand flexibility solutions that are enabled by the DERMS
platform as new programs are launched.
About Peninsula Clean Energy
Peninsula
Clean Energy is a Community Choice Energy agency. It is the official
electricity provider for the communities of San Mateo County and Los
Banos. Founded in 2016 with a mission to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, the agency serves a population of 810,000 by providing more
than 3,600 gigawatt hours annually of electricity that is 50 percent
renewable and 100 percent clean and at lower cost than PG&E. As a
community-led, not-for-profit agency, Peninsula Clean Energy makes
significant investments in its communities to expand access to
sustainable and affordable energy solutions. Follow us at PenCleanEnergy.com, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.
About Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Silicon
Valley Clean Energy is a not-for-profit, community-owned agency
providing electricity from renewable and clean sources to more than
280,000 residential and commercial customers in 13 Santa Clara County
jurisdictions. As a public agency, net revenues are returned to the
community to keep rates competitive and promote clean energy programs.
Silicon Valley Clean Energy is advancing innovative solutions to fight
climate change by decarbonizing the grid, transportation, and
buildings. Learn more at svcleanenergy.org.
About Lunar Energy
Lunar
Energy Inc. powers homes around the world with endless clean energy.
Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy engineers the world’s best clean energy
products to electrify homes and connect communities to form clean,
resilient virtual power plants. The fast-growing, global company is
delivering an ecosystem of all-electric products to make electricity
greener, air cleaner, and energy more secure and reliable for everyone.
Learn more about the company and career opportunities at www.lunarenergy.com and follow Lunar Energy on Instagram and LinkedIn for more information.
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