This report follows the qualitative research undertaken in the REVS social research workstream and the business models workstream. It uses numerical modelling to add a quantitative dimension to many of the issues raised in the qualitative research, including how the benefits, risks, and impacts of V2G are influenced by user’s prioritisation of various values and constraints.
Report extract
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology enables electric vehicles (EVs) to discharge power from their batteries into the grid. This capability is seen as being tremendously beneficial due to:
- the economic and material efficiency of making better use of vehicles that are currently under utilised when parked (which is most of the time),
- the critical role of flexibility in 100% renewable energy power systems,
- the large energy storage capacity of individual EV batteries (and larger vehicles) and the large number of vehicles,and-the significant power capacities with which EVs connect to the grid.
