Canberra trial shows EVs can provide backup power to grid in blackouts and emergencies

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Canberra trial shows EVs can provide backup power to grid in blackouts and emergencies
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Researchers say EV models with vehicle-to-grid capability will be a huge and flexible resource able to respond to emergencies

Some of the vehicle-to-grid enabled electric vehicles used in an ANU project that showed how EVs could help future grid calamities.Some of the vehicle-to-grid enabled electric vehicles used in an ANU project that showed how EVs could help future grid calamities.Within six seconds, 16 vehicles started discharging their batteries, sending power back into the grid.

It was important to have an “end goal … to get things set up in the right way, so we don’t have to keep going back and making major radical changes to it”, he says. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “Thinking further ahead, once the vehicle fleet is fully electrified, it would only require 2.25% of the 6.2m vehicles in the state of New South Wales and to stop charging at 5kW to provide the 700MW of flexible load required to, on average, cover all frequency contingency services,” a paper written about the program, with Sturmberg among the authors, has found.

Their flexibility means charging can often be delayed with little inconvenience to the owner and their battery size – as much as two days’ household power use – gives them collective heft.

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