Solar Storage Project by Vaughan Headquartered Utility Firm, PowerStream, Connects Neighbours

Calling your home a power plant because a few solar panels have been slapped on the roof is a bit of a stretch.

But what if your home also had a way to store that solar energy and was connected to tens, hundreds, even thousands of other homes in a community?

What if your local electric utility could manage how that collection of houses deploys the power they generate and store?

You’d have, in essence, a virtual power plant — part of what visionaries like Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk call the “Internet of energy.”

It’s a future that Neetika Sathe, vice-president of smart grid technologies at PowerStream, is starting to build today.