German government funds project to utilize V2G capability of commercial fleets
The project will initially focus on company locations with company and employee vehicles. Demonstrators with 50 regenerative vehicles are planned at seven company locations, where various relevant use cases for bidirectional charging will be implemented. The partners will initially develop and commission regenerative charging stations, including customised hardware and open communication interfaces to higher-level control systems and electric vehicles
As a first step, the 16 partners will develop and commission regenerative charging stations with customised hardware and open communication interfaces to higher-level control systems and electric vehicles. They then plan to develop concepts and procedures for determining and forecasting flexibility potential through energy recovery. Further project goals are the standardisation of the bidirectional charging solution and the transferability of the project results to other applications.
“With new approaches and through our research work, the mobility infrastructure will not become a burden, but an important pillar of the energy transition, bringing efficiency, flexibility and stability to the energy system,” explained Dr Robert Kohrs, Head of the Smart Grids department at Fraunhofer ISE. “The practicality of the results to be developed in the project will be ensured through close cooperation between manufacturers, users and the energy industry, as well as through the support of applied research.”
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