During a major storm in Canberra, vehicles' batteries supplied power to tens of thousands of homes.
The development of electric vehicles was primarily driven by the need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and lower the impact of climate change. However, a major benefit of EVs was unexplored until a fleet of electric cars supplied power to a grid during a blackout in Canberra.
“It’s the first time in the world this type of vehicle-to-grid response to an emergency has been demonstrated,” said lead author of the study, Senior Research Fellow Dr Bjorn Sturmberg from the Australian National University.maintained that the team has a fleet of 51 EVs across Canberra that monitor the grid whenever they’re plugged in and can quickly inject short bursts of power to rebalance the system if the national grid rapidly loses power. “They’re essentially big batteries on wheels.
Sturmberg highlighted that in the case of the February emergency, once the vehicles had provided power for ten minutes some resumed charging by default. “There would be little cost or inconvenience in delaying charging for an hour or two in this kind of situation.”
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