Volts A Tesla vet tries to master the VPP market
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Mar 18, 2026 
Kunal Girotra, founder and CEO of Lunar Energy and former head of Tesla’s residential energy business, is a hardware and software entrepreneur focused on residential batteries, solar integration, and VPP software. He discusses building modular batteries and integrated inverters, switching to LFP cells, Lunar’s AI planning and GridShare VPP platform, scaling whole-home VPPs, and future charging and V2G plans.
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Cut Soft Costs With Simplicity And A Paying App
- Reduce customer-acquisition costs by simplifying product and delivering a great app to demonstrate savings and VPP payments.
- Lunar focuses on installer resellers plus brand marketing and an app that pays VPP revenues monthly to owners.
Machine Learning Co-Optimizes The Whole Home
- Lunar AI runs 48-hour forward plans using solar, load and tariff forecasts and re-plans every 30 minutes to minimize cost.
- Machine learning co-optimizes generation, storage and controllable loads to save an extra ~$380–$450/year on a 20 kWh system in California.
GridShare Sells VPP Control To Utilities And Retailers
- GridShare is an enterprise VPP platform sold to utilities, retailers and aggregators to control distributed devices at scale.
- Three California retail aggregators already use GridShare to manage distributed batteries and reduce resource adequacy purchases.