Vehicle-to-grid power: Electric vehicles for grid stabilization, reserves and renewable backup

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• Willett Kempton, Director of the Centre for Carbon-free Power Integration; College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; University of Delaware
• Friday 18 September 2009, 11:00-12:00
• Lecture Room 509A.

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Electric vehicles can be used as a resource for the electric grid, for balancing power , reserves, and/or for storage of renewable energy. We have developed and are now operating electric vehicles to function as a generator that provides power to the electric system under control by the grid operator. The controls include an onboard “Vehicle Smart Link” (VSL) to control charging and discharging between the vehicle battery and the electric power grid. The vehicle, in turn is controlled by an aggregation server, the latter receiving signals from the grid operator, and dispatching power from the vehicles in response to those signals. The potential power of an electrified light vehicle fleet is surprisingly large—if we assume 15 kW power per vehicle, the UK light vehicle fleet of about 50M cars would yield a power resource of 450 GW, over 10 times the average UK load. Abstract not available

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