Operational Storage Assets for Grid Balancing
The price of photovoltaics (PV) and other Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) have dropped dramatically encouraging more end users to integrate DERs onto the grid. From utility scale solar and wind farms to residential PV, the amount of DERs coming online is destabilizing the grid. This creates a huge opportunity for storage, both stationary and in the form of electric vehicles to help stabilize this cleaner more sophisticated grid.
The time is right to integrate storage to the grid because the price of batteries is dropping even faster than projected. Another encouraging development is that many new entrants into the EV market have caused a shift in consumers mindsets about EVs.
Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technologies have made significant progress in the last two years. After over a decade of academic research such as University of Delaware , full scale deployments of EV fleets that combine operational cost savings with Ancillary Services market participation revenue show great promise for new deployment models.
This presentation will review the LA Air Force Base V2G project that replaced 42 IC engine vehicles with EVs or plug-in hybrids to participate in the CAISO Frequency Up/Down market. It will also review static storage cost trends and apply them to the combination of peak demand management, critical facility backup, and Ancillary Services market participation. Finally the presentation will categorize some open standards that are applicable to scaling these deployments and identify some gaps in standards.
Clay Collier
Co-Founder and CEO
Kisensum
Clay is Co-Founder of Kisensum, a software firm specializing in Location-based and Energy-optimization applications. The company's first products will optimize the utilization and charging of electric vehicle fleets and will use the EV batteries to participate in the wholesale energy market.
Clay was most recently the Co-Founder and CEO of Akuacom, the inventor of the full suite of software and hardware that created the Automated Demand Response market and led to the OpenADR standard with the support of Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and the California Energy Commission. Honeywell acquired Akuacom in 2010 and Clay spent three years in Business Development domestically and internationally. Clay received a B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley, and has patented multiple technologies in the areas of geospatial and energy systems and software.
The price of photovoltaics (PV) and other Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) have dropped dramatically encouraging more end users to integrate DERs onto the grid. From utility scale solar and wind farms to residential PV, the amount of DERs coming online is destabilizing the grid. This creates a huge opportunity for storage, both stationary and in the form of electric vehicles to help stabilize this cleaner more sophisticated grid.
The time is right to integrate storage to the grid because the price of batteries is dropping even faster than projected. Another encouraging development is that many new entrants into the EV market have caused a shift in consumers mindsets about EVs.
Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technologies have made significant progress in the last two years. After over a decade of academic research such as University of Delaware , full scale deployments of EV fleets that combine operational cost savings with Ancillary Services market participation revenue show great promise for new deployment models.
This presentation will review the LA Air Force Base V2G project that replaced 42 IC engine vehicles with EVs or plug-in hybrids to participate in the CAISO Frequency Up/Down market. It will also review static storage cost trends and apply them to the combination of peak demand management, critical facility backup, and Ancillary Services market participation. Finally the presentation will categorize some open standards that are applicable to scaling these deployments and identify some gaps in standards.
Co-Founder and CEO
Kisensum
Clay is Co-Founder of Kisensum, a software firm specializing in Location-based and Energy-optimization applications. The company's first products will optimize the utilization and charging of electric vehicle fleets and will use the EV batteries to participate in the wholesale energy market.
Clay was most recently the Co-Founder and CEO of Akuacom, the inventor of the full suite of software and hardware that created the Automated Demand Response market and led to the OpenADR standard with the support of Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and the California Energy Commission. Honeywell acquired Akuacom in 2010 and Clay spent three years in Business Development domestically and internationally. Clay received a B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley, and has patented multiple technologies in the areas of geospatial and energy systems and software.