If V2G Happens, Its Donors Will Be Extremely Well Paid

Here’s a note to the readers who believe: V2G will never happen because an EV owner would not want to drain their battery (costing cycle life) leaving them with the possibility that it would not be recharged when they needed it.

If there is an answer (and I think there is), it’s that they will be paid handsomely in that rare event.  A huge portion of our grid is built to address the peak load that is achieved less than 100 hours per (8760-hour) year.  Shaving that peak with demand response or V2G has enormous value, which means that big bucks can be paid to whatever entities make it possible.

We also need to price in the value of ancillary services, i.e., small amounts of electrical energy that are used to address short-term perturbations in the grid’s wave form and voltage.