V2G-Vehicle-to-Grid --
Green Technology. Vehicle-to-Grid Technology. Electric Car Networks Represent Another Energy Storage Solution. Right after reading Brian Albright’s piece “Energy Storage Solution Full of Hot Air,” I came across an interesting energy solution in a Scientific American blog post by Lesley Evans Ogden. This article discusses the history and commercialization of vehicle-to-grid technology (V2G), which was developed by Willett Kempton at the University of Delaware along with Vermont’s Green Mountain College economist Steve Letendre. The concept is to create a network of electric vehicles (EV) to act as batteries, charging the EVs’ batteries during slow energy usage times and feeding the energy back to the grid during high demand. This would be extremely useful in micro-grid applications and in applications using solar and wind energy generation. Professor Kempton sold his rights to this technology to Danish company Nuvve last June. They, in turn, h...