In Ann Arbor, Michigan, developers Wednesday unveiled Veridian at County Farm—a new carbon-neutral community of 170 fully electric homes that blend affordability, resilience and cutting-edge energy design.

Thrive Collaborative, a local property developer focused on constructing life-enhancing communities, and sonnen, a battery and virtual power plant technology provider (whose name is stylized lower-case), made the announcement.

One of the first fossil fuel-free neighborhoods in the country, according to the developer, the newly constructed EV-ready homes are equipped with geothermal and electric heat pumps, all-electric appliances, at least 1.3 MW of rooftop solar and a sonnen intelligent battery.

Together, the technologies will form an integrated virtual power plant (VPP), or what Thrive and sonnen call a “clustered clean energy organism,” designed to eliminate the carbon footprint of each home.

“It’s more than net-zero—it’s a replicable model for how we can decarbonize our homes, stabilize the energy grid and reimagine what neighborhoods can be. We can be beneficial to the electric grid, rather than a drain on it,” said Matt Grocoff, founder of Thrive Collaborative.

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