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Enabling Electric Vehicles as Distributed Energy Resources
California Energy Commission
The buyer is seeking applied research and development projects to advance vehicle-grid integration technologies and solutions. The projects aim to address knowledge gaps, reduce costs of V2X enabling technology, and develop submetering solutions to facilitate VGI. The buyer wants to fund innovative approaches that will benefit California IOU ratepayers and lead to technological breakthroughs in achieving the state's energy goals. Projects must include technology transfer activities and a measurement and verification plan.
- 10/16/2024 - Pre-Application Workshop
- 10/23/2024 - Deadline for Written Questions
- 11/22/2024 - Deadline to Submit Abstracts
- 2/27/2025 - Proposal Due Date
- 4/21/2025 - Anticipated Notice of Proposed Award Posting Date
- 9/15/2025 - Anticipated Agreement Start Date
- Develop innovative VGI technologies and solutions
- Quantify cost reduction of innovations compared to current market options
- Demonstrate technology in lab environment with EVSE and vehicle OEM partners
- Conduct modeling studies to analyze VGI potential and impacts
- Design consolidated V2X installation solutions
- Develop mobile submetering solutions for EVs
- Create software to simplify EV charging data transmission to utilities
- Analyze lifetime effects of V2X on EV battery degradation
- Improve roundtrip efficiency of V2X charging systems
- Design V2X solutions for multifamily homes
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