The value of the Vehicle To Grid for electricity grid services and the penetration of renewable energies is not open to debate among the 150 French mobility players who met online on 22 November. They were able to discuss the technical, economic and social issues that need to be consolidated around this "maturing" technology.
Organised on the initiative of 4 competitiveness clusters (Capenergies, Derbi, Medee, Next Move) of the Smart Energy Alliance, this webinar presented the results and lessons learned from 4 pioneering projects deployed in different regions:
- The project AVENIR for the deployment of electric vehicles, piloted by Enedis and its industrial partners in the Southern Region
- The project FLEXITANIEa service for controlling two-way recharging stations being tested on a large scale in the Gard region by EDF
- The project GROUPED 4.0 carried out in social housing in Lille by Arts&Métiers and Partenord Habitat
- The project MOBENA supported by Vedecom on interoperable electric mobility services
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What can we learn from these experiments?
They bring together a wide range of players to work together: electricity grid operators, renewable energy producers, storage specialists, vehicle manufacturers, as well as local authorities, economists and end users.
All the studies point to the value of V2G as a major source of energy storage and flexibility services for the electricity grid. There are still a number of challenges to be met, such as
- Validate the essential prerequisites studied in the context of Smart Charging and Plug&Charge (communication protocols, interoperability, etc.)
- Accurately measure the impact of V2G on the network ;
- Integrating V2G as a complementary building block in Smart Grid projects
- Demonstrate V2G's ability to deliver high volumes to energy storage markets
- Study the business models and social acceptability of V2G...
To consolidate these challenges and enable mass deployment of V2G, experimentation must continue on a larger scale and on a variety of use cases.