Grid Integration
Stories tagged Grid Integration.
Hyundai gave V2X one global name. The electricity market did not follow
AllDayEnergy will put Hyundai, Kia and Genesis charging services under one badge, but the first release exposes the harder problem: V2X still changes at every border, utility and wallbox.
PG&E's V2X pilot reaches 51 homes, but the approved-hardware maze remains
PG&E has expanded its bidirectional charging pilot from a near standstill to 51 interconnected customers. The fine print shows why turning an EV into a grid asset is still an installation project, not a feature toggle.
The grid scorecard that leaves EV charging ungraded
IREC's 2026 Freeing the Grid report handed one state an A and thirteen an F. Its grades cover exported power, not the load-connection process that can hold up truck charging depots.
Truck Charging's Real Bottleneck Is the Utility Queue, Not the Charger
America's largest new electric truck hub secured 9 MW. A Chinese depot north of Chengdu has 51 MW of charging equipment installed. The comparison shows why interconnection, distributed architecture and load scheduling now set the pace of freight electrification.
California wants 9 GW from parked EVs. Germany is selling the kit
GridLab says 10 percent of California's projected EV fleet could cover a third of the state's 2036 long-duration storage target. The cars that can actually export still come as a branded charger, tariff and app.
Connecticut wants public EV chargers to become a statewide grid resource
A 1,000-port pilot found that brief, rewarded charging pauses could cut peak demand without requiring compatible vehicle telematics.