A new study from Europe’s clean transport & energy group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed back into the grid could save hundreds of billions of dollars.
The promise of bidirectional charging – which allows vehicle to grid (V2G) and Vehicle to Home (V2H) technology – has become an increasingly attractive byproduct of the transition to EVs, creating the potential for a fleet of what T&E describes as “batteries on wheels” to store excess electricity when it is cheap and in surplus, and sending it back to the grid when demand is high.
According to the report, bidirectional charging and V2G could save the European Union’s energy systems €22 billion annually by 2040, somewhere around $A35 billion.
This would be equivalent to an 8 per cent reduction on the cost of building and running the EU’s energy system, resulting in total savings of as much as €175.45 billion (around $A290 billion).
The economic savings would be generated by helping to store excess renewable energy, avoiding the need for stationary storage by up to 92 per cent and allowing European grids to integrate up to 40 per cent more solar PV capacity, or as much as 430GW by 2040.
Moreover, by storing excess renewable electricity that would otherwise be lost, the report predicts that Europe’s EV fleet could contribute up to 9 per cent of the EU’s annual power needs by 2040, making EVs the fourth largest electricity “supplier” in the EU.
New study finds that using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed back into the grid could save hundreds of billions of dollars.Joshua S. Hill (The Driven)
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For all the tremendous loss of life the numbers reflect, they surely underestimate the true human costs of the conflict.candice (Truthout)
What is I told you so for $6 trillion, Wesley? https://archive.org/details/dn2007-0302_vid Mar. 2, 2007 https://vimeo.com/64799215Nakama | Invidious
Wo hat Kamala Harris die Nase vorn, wo Donald Trump? Was genau passiert, wenn dieser eine Swing State kippt? Der Informationsdurst zur US-Wahl ist brennend. Stillen lässt er sich mit diesen neun sehenswerten Visualisierungen.
Trump vs Harris: Spannende Grafiken zur US-Wahl 2024
Andrii Kovalenko did not provide any more details on the circumstances of the engagement or possible losses on the North Korean side.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
This project on its surface is as simple as it sounds: it's an archive, of stickers, from the anarchists' scenes around the world. That's it.anarchiststickersarchive.org
Turning Dust into Masterpieces: +20 Photos Of Dirty Van Art
von Dirty Van Art (⚠️ Facebook) and Pro Boy Nick (⚠️ Instagram).
#streetart #streetartutopiaTurning Dust into Masterpieces: +20 Photos Of Dirty Van Art
Discover how artists are turning dirty vans into mobile canvases with incredible dust art.All photos from the Facebook Page Dirty Van Art and Pro Boy Nick.This blogpost features a collectstreetartutopia.com
Head of The Democrats party, Yair Golan, called for protests, saying, "Take to the streets."By JACOB LAZNIK, DARCIE GRUNBLATT (The Jerusalem Post)
Du willst dich gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie engagieren und aktiv werden? Du bist auf der Suche nach einer Gruppe, die das Thema bewegungsübergreifend und aus systemischer Sicht betrachtet? Egal ob du schon organisiert bist oder dich ganz neu mit…GgdT Hamburg (Gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie)
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