What is Lunar AI?
How Lunar AI helps you save more and earn more, every day
With Lunar, your energy isn’t just stored, it’s intelligently managed. Lunar AI looks at your utility rates and programs, daily weather, and home energy patterns to help you save more.
And it’s working.
A homeowner in Fremont, California, saved $850 more with Lunar AI in 2025 compared to a standard “self-consumption” battery mode. Another in Redwood City saved $247 more in August 2025 alone. Across the entire fleet of Lunar Systems in 2025, customers saved an average of $338 more than if they used a standard self-consumption mode.
How Lunar AI adds value every day
Every day, Lunar AI creates a personalized plan for your home with the goal of reducing costs and increasing earnings.
It does this in three ways:
- Avoid high evening prices
- Earn export credits when they’re most valuable
- Participate in Virtual Power Plants for extra earnings
Let’s break that down.
1. Avoid high evening prices
Use your own power instead of buying expensive grid energy.
Electricity prices spike in the evening when solar slows and demand soars. Lunar AI plans ahead to ensure your battery is full before 4–9 PM, so your home can run on stored solar power instead of costly grid electricity.
💡 Example: If tomorrow’s forecast looks cloudy, Lunar AI knows you may not make enough energy to charge your battery and run everything in your home. So Lunar AI will prioritize charging the battery with solar power and use inexpensive afternoon energy from the grid to power your home. When the evening rolls around — with its high electricity prices — you’ll be using the solar energy you saved up during the day. A traditional “self-consumption” battery simply doesn’t plan at all, it uses what it makes without thinking ahead.
2. Earn export credits when they’re most valuable
During sunny months, your system may produce more than you use. Lunar AI looks at hourly export prices and strategically sends power back to the grid when credits are most valuable. Those credits accumulate now and offset your bills later.
☀️ Why summer? When you get a solar and battery system in California there’s a different credit you earn for sending energy back to the grid every hour of every day. April at 2pm? That’s $0.00/kWh of energy sent back to the grid. August at 7pm? That’s $1.03/kWh. Lunar AI tracks these rates — they change every year — to make the best choice for your home.
3. Participate in Virtual Power Plants for extra earnings
When you’re enrolled in a VPP, your battery joins others to provide clean power during grid stress or emergencies. And you can get paid for this energy, often at higher rates than the export credits. Customers earned an average of more than $400 for participation in a California VPP in 2025.
⚙️ How AI helps: Lunar continuously compares export credit values and VPP payouts, then automatically chooses the best option for you.
The Bottom Line
Any battery can store energy. Only Lunar AI learns, adapts, and acts for you—every single day—to help you save more, earn more, and make the most of your home’s clean energy.