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Vehicle to grid: first approval in the USA
"The City of Newark, Delaware has become the first electric utility in the United States to approve the use of an electric vehicle to store and provide power for the local electric grid," writes Green Car Congress.
According to the article, the "University of Delaware (UD) researchers led by Associate Professor Willett Kempton developed the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) concept in collaboration with a consortium (MAGIC, Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Cars Consortium) of industry partners over the past decade to establish the communications protocol between the vehicle and the grid operator. (...) With the City of Newark’s approval, the UD team is now conducting V2G testing at two outlets within the City’s service territory."
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