SolarEdge Partners with WeaveGrid to Expand Utility Support for VPPs

Why It Matters

The partnership gives utilities a scalable way to manage diverse DERs while unlocking new revenue streams for homeowners, accelerating grid reliability and clean‑energy adoption. It signals a shift toward holistic, asset‑agnostic grid orchestration platforms.

Key Takeaways

• SolarEdge integrates residential batteries into WeaveGrid DISCO platform
• Utilities can coordinate EVs and batteries via single software
• Homeowners gain incentives for grid‑supporting charge cycles
• Virtual power plant participation expands for SolarEdge customers
• DISCO scales to manage growing distributed energy resources

Pulse Analysis

As distributed energy resources (DERs) proliferate, utilities face the challenge of balancing intermittent supply with real‑time demand. Traditional grid‑management tools, often siloed by asset type, struggle to orchestrate the complex interactions of electric vehicles, solar panels, and home‑based storage. Integrated platforms like WeaveGrid’s DISCO are emerging to fill this gap, providing a software layer that aligns customer behavior with distribution‑level constraints, thereby enhancing overall system resilience.

The SolarEdge‑WeaveGrid alliance extends DISCO’s capabilities beyond electric‑vehicle charging to include residential battery systems. By embedding SolarEdge’s inverter and storage technology into the DISCO framework, utilities can now aggregate battery charge‑discharge cycles alongside EV loads, creating more flexible virtual power plants. Homeowners benefit from automated optimization that reduces energy costs and unlocks incentive programs, while utilities gain granular control over localized grid stress points, improving load forecasting and reducing the need for costly infrastructure upgrades.

Industry analysts view this collaboration as a bellwether for the next generation of grid services. As electrification accelerates, the ability to manage heterogeneous assets through a single, scalable platform will become a competitive differentiator for utilities. Moreover, the partnership opens new revenue pathways for both SolarEdge and WeaveGrid, positioning them to capture a share of the burgeoning DER orchestration market. Stakeholders should watch for further integrations that could broaden participation in ancillary services, demand‑response markets, and carbon‑offset programs, reshaping the economics of the modern electric grid.

SolarEdge partners with WeaveGrid to expand utility support for VPPs

By Billy Ludt, Managing Editor, Solar Power World

SolarEdge Technologies is partnering with WeaveGrid, a grid‑software provider for electric utilities, to support residential battery systems in utility grid programs. This will expand WeaveGrid’s Distribution‑Integrated System Capacity Orchestration (DISCO), which was originally designed to manage EV charging at scale.

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“As electrification accelerates, utilities need solutions that go beyond managing a single asset type,” said Apoorv Bhargava, co‑founder and CEO of WeaveGrid. “Partnering with SolarEdge reflects the next phase of DISCO — coordinating EVs and residential batteries together so utilities can manage local and system‑wide grid needs while giving customers more opportunities to support the electric grid and receive financial incentives.”

DISCO is designed to be a utility platform for aligning customer energy use with distribution‑level grid needs. For SolarEdge, the partnership expands the ways its residential‑battery customers can participate in utility programs, including virtual power plants and other grid services, depending on utility offerings and customer enrollment. For utilities, it is an approach to managing growing electrification and distributed energy resources in a single asset‑level platform.

“This collaboration gives further access to utility programs that put more control and value directly into homeowners’ hands—from optimizing when their batteries charge and discharge to earning incentives for supporting grid stability,” said Tamara Sinensky, senior manager of grid services product at SolarEdge.

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Billy Ludt

Billy Ludt is managing editor of Solar Power World and currently covers topics on mounting, inverters, installation and operations.