Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster? - Inside Climate News
Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster? - Inside Climate News
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Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster? - Inside Climate News
I would not mind my EV powering my house during a power failure, but it would take a humongous incentive for me to use my EV battery to power the grid…
V2H alone is a thing if that's all you want.
V2G is about grid stabilising, charge with excess renewable, use when renewables not generating as much.
The few tests in Australia seem promising ahead of a wider rollout, use an energy broker to get better prices etc.
Apparently it's less about "powering" as much as it is about stabilizing. When we go from huge coal/nuclear turbines to wind power there's a need to quickly ramp up/down power to the grid to keep the frequency within a certain range. V2G would be used for that, and would then only increase/decrease battery charge within single percentage digits.
I have a car with V2G support but the infrastructure is not here (Sweden) yet, so my electrical provider does pay me when charging is not done or done to help the grid, but cannot move electricity in the other direction yet.
Interesting! I didn't know there are cars in the market able to handle V2G in accordance with the standard. What brand is that? For any large organisation with lots of cars, like a community, flexibility services for a hundred cars or so would add up quickly.
Why? Your EV has 200-300 miles of range, and on any given day you'll use 30-40 of that. Why not put the rest to work stabilizing and cleaning the grid and earn yourself a paycheck in the process?
Why? You get paid for it, and there's supposedly no impact on battery life
You'd have to actually get paid for it, though.
Feed-in tariffs around here assume that you're using home solar and you're feeding into the grid during solar hours, when everyone else with solar is also flooding the grid. So it's hardly anything.
We don't have higher rates for feeding in to the grid during the evening peak, because that hasn't been a thing before.
We do have higher usage rates for peak times though, so it makes sense to use your car's battery to power your house during those times which takes load of the grid. But we really need time of use rates for feeding into the grid too.
It will always have some impact on the battery. Every charge cycle will degrade it a bit.