Ever since the electric car came into public view in the 1990s, the subject of V2G (vehicle to grid) has been an undertone in many conversations on the subject. All that energy stored in millions of batteries, distributed across an …
Tesla’s Move Will Accelerate Vehicle to Grid Adoption Read More »
I met Bruce Wilson in the sandbox in kindergarten, where we were schoolmates in Philadelphia. Though we lost track of one another for many decades, I’m happy that we’ve reconnected via 2GreenEnergy, where he offers a steady stream of cogent …
In the context of grid management, we hear a great deal about “ancillary services,” which normally means adding a bit of power to the electricity grid, specifically generated so as to manage seemingly small but extremely important issues like unwanted …
I’m not sure how many readers are following the (extensive) discussions of the validity of electric vehicles. The conversation pertains to today’s U.S. energy market—one that features coal as the resource by which incremental load on the grid is met. …
Validity of Electric Vehicles – Environmentally and Otherwise Read More »
As pointed out in this article, the presence of electric vehicles plugged into our grid will one day provide a great number of different benefits, largely in terms of “ancillary services,” but also in terms of absorbing off-peak power, and, …
Electric Transportation Will Provide Numerous Benefits Read More »
In response to my recent piece on electric transportation in Seeking Alpha, EV naysayer Glenn Doty writes a response that concludes: “I just don’t get how any environmentalist could support these. If the people who buy solar panels and a …
There is so much general ignorance on the basic issues confronting renewable energy and electric transportation that it’s sometimes hard to know how to react to articles like this one on “vehicle to grid,” i.e., the concept that large number …
Electric Transportation, Vehicle To Grid, and Wind Energy Read More »
In today’s discussion on energy storage, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: As far as who should pay for storage, that’s easy… the storage facility should pay for itself by the value that it adds to the grid. If it …
Here’s an overly simplistic article that questions the validity of electric vehicles as “green” transportation on the basis that coal is used to charge EVs. And here is one of the comments: “I power my electric car totally from solar …
The Migration to Electric Transportation — It's Complicated Read More »
