The National Grid will drain parked electric cars of their batteries in a trial designed to ensure energy supply at times of high demand or low supply.
The scheme will see electric vehicles charging on driveways plugged into the system responsible for balancing the National Grid for the first time.The National Grid has teamed up with domestic supplier Octopus Energy to run the pilot, which 135 households have signed up for.
Those taking part will be paid 60p per hour for the electricity they send from their cars to the grid.
Julian Leslie, chief engineer at the network operator National Grid ESO, said: ‘If we can get 10million vehicles doing vehicle-to-grid, then fantastic.’
The cars could act as a giant battery when the transition to renewable – but less reliable – energy sources is complete. Mail Online - link - John Abiona - link - more like this - link
Comment:- So my very expensive battery with a finite number of charges before it degrades that I've charged up to get me to Oxford and back gets 30% of charge drained because the UK's renewable generation and storage capacity can't cope!
Assuming the UK will have enough capacity to charge all of the electric cars post 2030 we'll need at least 15 GW of stored energy. If we ever got to the point where the country was about to go dark without the electricity in my car battery we're doomed.
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