This book defines and charts the barriers and future of vehicle-to-grid technology: a technology that could dramatically reduce emissions, create revenue, and accelerate the adoption of battery electric cars. This technology connects the electric power grid and the transportation system in ways that will enable electric vehicles to store renewable energy and offer valuable services to the electricity grid and its markets. To understand the complex features of this emergent technology, the authors explore the current status and prospect of vehicle-to-grid, and detail the sociotechnical barriers that may impede its fruitful deployment. The book concludes with a policy roadmap to advise decision-makers on how to optimally implement vehicle-to-grid and capture its benefits to society while attempting to avoid the impediments discussed earlier in the book.
Author(s): Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 271
Tags: Vehicle, Grid, Electric Mobility
Front Matter ....Pages i-xlii
History, Definition, and Status of V2G (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 1-31
The Potential Benefits of V2G (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 33-64
The Technical Challenges to V2G (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 65-89
The Economic and Business Challenges to V2G (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 91-116
The Regulatory and Political Challenges to V2G (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 117-139
Consumers, Society and V2G (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 141-165
V2G Deployment Pathways and Policy Recommendations (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 167-190
Realizing and Problematizing a V2G Future (Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool)....Pages 191-233
Back Matter ....Pages 235-237
