SolarEdge Technologies, WeaveGrid Tie Residential Batteries into DISCO Grid Orchestration

San Francisco, Feb 11 (Reuters) — SolarEdge Technologies and WeaveGrid forge a partnership to fold residential battery systems into utility grid programs, expanding the latter’s Distribution-Integrated System Capacity Orchestration (DISCO) platform beyond electric vehicle management.

SolarEdge Ties Batteries into DISCO

WeaveGrid and SolarEdge announce that DISCO, originally built to manage EV charging at scale, now incorporates residential battery capacity so utilities can coordinate a broader set of behind-the-meter resources. The integration lets utilities enroll battery-equipped homes into virtual power plants and other grid services, subject to individual utility offerings and customer consent, and gives homeowners options to optimize charge and discharge timing while earning incentives for supporting grid stability.

Apoorv Bhargava, WeaveGrid’s cofounder and CEO, frames the expansion as necessary “as electrification accelerates,” saying utilities need a single orchestration layer to manage multiple asset types together for both local congestion relief and bulk capacity needs. SolarEdge, described by the partners as a leading U.S. residential solar provider, acts as a foundational battery OEM partner and says it already has more than 500 megawatt-hours of storage participating in grid services. Tamara Sinensky, SolarEdge’s senior manager for grid services product, says the collaboration increases access to utility programs for battery owners and places more control and value into homeowners’ hands.

Operational and Program Benefits

The deal positions DISCO as a utility-grade platform that simplifies telemetry, enrolment, measurement and verification for distributed energy resources, removing integration friction for both utilities and OEMs. The partners emphasize preserving customer privacy and choice while enabling rapid scale-up of battery participation in programs such as demand response, congestion management and capacity markets.

Industry Implications

The tie-up highlights how rooftop solar-plus-storage vendors and grid software providers are moving to make behind-the-meter batteries active grid assets rather than passive backups. As electrification and DER adoption grow, utilities increasingly seek unified orchestration tools to align customer energy use with distribution-level needs, and vendors such as SolarEdge and WeaveGrid are positioning to supply that functionality.