{"id":46584,"date":"2026-07-27T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46584"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:37:25","slug":"the-solution-to-the-power-grids-woes-might-just-be-sitting-in-your-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46584","title":{"rendered":"The Solution to the Power Grid&#8217;s Woes Might Just Be Sitting in Your Driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ev-bidirectional-charging-solution-to-power-grid-woes\/?utm_mailing=wir_nl_6685_daily_072726_1ha5uk0rkf&amp;cndid=20773990\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2248563476-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:183px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ev-bidirectional-charging-solution-to-power-grid-woes\/\">The Solution to the Power Grid&#8217;s Woes Might Just Be Sitting in Your Driveway<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>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. \u201cIf you have a higher number of batteries out there in a virtual power plant, you can actually use less energy from each individual battery,\u201d Silverman said. \u201cBut collectively, when you patch them all together and aggregate them, it comes out to a very large resource. And that\u2019s really where the magic is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1144,244,2276],"class_list":["post-46584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-batteries","tag-ev","tag-v2g","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46587,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions\/46587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}