More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons.
Source: The Solution to the Power Grid’s Woes Might Just Be Sitting in Your Driveway
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With EVs sitting idle all across a city, that adds up to some serious power. So much so, in fact, that only a fraction of owners would need to participate for a program to adequately support the grid. But the more people who opt in, the better, as that gives a utility a broader base to draw from. “If you have a higher number of batteries out there in a virtual power plant, you can actually use less energy from each individual battery,” Silverman said. “But collectively, when you patch them all together and aggregate them, it comes out to a very large resource. And that’s really where the magic is.”
