{"id":67152,"date":"2025-10-17T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energi.media\/?p=67152"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:49:06","slug":"how-evs-can-fix-the-grid-and-lower-your-electric-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/how-evs-can-fix-the-grid-and-lower-your-electric-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"How EVs can fix the grid and lower your electric bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was published by Grist<\/a> on Oct. 17, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Matt Simon<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Depending on whom you\u2019re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn\u2019t always shine and the wind doesn\u2019t always blow, true enough, while a gas-fired power plant can generate electricity any time. That supposed precarity of renewables will get even shakier, critics argue, as Americans ditch conventional vehicles for electric ones, which will draw ever more power from an already strained grid.<\/p>\n

Luckily, that\u2019s not a realistic scenario because of what renewables and EVs have in common: giant batteries. Solar and wind farms are plugging into huge banks of them to store energy to use as needed, fixing their intermittency challenge. (Engineers are turning Earth itself into an\u00a0even bigger battery<\/a>.) And a growing number of cars with cords feature vehicle-to-grid technology, or V2G, also known as bidirectional charging. They can draw clean power when renewables are humming on the grid, and their owners get paid to send some back to a utility to meet growing demand \u2014 creating a vast distributed network that could make the electrical system more reliable, not less. Research has found that globally,\u00a0less than a third of EV owners<\/a>\u00a0would have to opt into such a system to meet the rising need for energy storage.<\/p>\n

Until now, we\u2019ve been customers of utilities \u2014 with power flowing one way to homes \u2014 but more and more we\u2019ll be active participants in the grid, sending extra battery power the other way. That shift is getting a head start in Maryland, where last month the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company partnered with Sunrun, which provides home solar and batteries, and Ford, which makes the electric F-150 Lightning, to activate the nation\u2019s\u00a0first residential V2G pilot project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time there are actual customers who are off-boarding power from their electric vehicles to the grid, and we\u2019re doing it at peak times in the evening,\u201d said Chris Rauscher, vice president of grid services at Sunrun, referring to the periods of greatest need for electricity. \u201cSo we\u2019re actually reducing the stress and the demand on the grid \u2014 crushing the curve, crushing the peak \u2014 which helps lower costs for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

To understand how this works, think of EVs less like vehicles and more like immense batteries on wheels. In fact, the Lightning\u2019s battery is 10 times bigger than a residential pack, Rauscher said. \u201cThere\u2019s more energy capacity deployed today in electric vehicle batteries on the road in the U.S. than in all stationary batteries combined,\u201d Rauscher added. \u201cThis is a massive resource.\u201d And it\u2019s only getting more massive: The Natural Resources Defense Council has estimated that if California V2G\u2019ed all of the 14 million EVs it\u2019s expected to have by 2035, it could\u00a0power every home in the state for three days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In these early days of the tech, though, only a handful of models sport V2G capabilities, but the number is growing. The hardware\u00a0and software aren\u2019t wildly complicated. A special charger juices up the vehicle\u2019s battery, then draws from the car to power a house, in the case of vehicle-to-home systems, or sends it back to the utility, in the case of vehicle-to-grid.<\/p>\n

Utilities will have to communicate with anyone participating in such a program, for instance with an app that allows a customer to, say, ask that their vehicle never be discharged below a certain percentage. Each utility will also need to figure out how much to compensate people for their power in order to incentivize them to join in. That might mean paying for the amount of energy provided, the same principle behind net metering, in which residential solar customers are reimbursed for\u00a0the energy they give to the grid<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re still in a bit of an early stage here,\u201d said Divesh Gupta, director of clean energy solutions at Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. \u201cThere are a lot of things that need to be worked out, particularly on the customer-experience side.\u201d<\/p>\n

That battery power need not go all the way back to the grid, though, to help utilities. For years now, owners have been using their Ford Lightning trucks to\u00a0power their homes<\/a>. These batteries are mammoth \u2014 the extended-range version can go 300-plus miles \u2014 and powering a home with one uses just 5 or 6 miles of that range per hour.<\/p>\n

So say an owner returns home at 6 p.m., when demand on the grid is skyrocketing as everyone else is knocking off work and switching on air conditioners and other energy-hungry appliances. Because consumption is rising, so too is the price of electricity. But a Lightning owner doesn\u2019t have to pay that if they\u2019re using their battery to power their home for five hours until they go to bed, using 25 to 30 miles of range on their battery. \u201cIt basically makes the house disappear, effectively, from the grid,\u201d said Ryan O\u2019Gorman, Ford\u2019s business lead for vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home.<\/p>\n

Then the owner can charge again when demand, and electricity prices, are lower. If they work from home, for example, they can charge during the day, when lots of solar power is coursing through the grid.<\/p>\n

More homes tapping EV batteries also eases demand on the grid, which is especially welcome during a heat wave when everyone\u2019s running their AC units. Those heat waves will only get worse from here \u2014 a growing challenge for utilities to provide the power that keeps people cool and safe. At the same time, ever more data centers are devouring ever more power and\u00a0stressing the grid to its limits<\/a>. That infrastructure also must accommodate other forms of\u00a0decarbonization<\/span>, like\u00a0heat pumps<\/a>\u00a0and induction stoves, that are essential for\u00a0weaning us off fossil fuels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead of sitting idly in a garage depreciating, V2G turns an EV into an asset for bolstering the grid and powering the home cheaply. \u201cCars are parked more than 22 hours a day,\u201d O\u2019Gorman said. \u201cWhen we look at the advantages of an EV, now that vehicle can provide savings and potentially revenue flows for the customer.\u201d (Interestingly, even\u00a0electric trains can now send juice<\/a>\u00a0back to the grid and generate revenue, thanks to what they gain from regenerative braking: In the Bay Area, the Caltrain system\u00a0is now being compensated for that energy<\/a>, slashing its estimated annual power cost from $19.5 million to $16.5 million.)<\/p>\n

The residential V2G program in Baltimore follows other experiments across the nation with larger vehicles. In Oakland, California, for instance, the utility Pacific Gas & Electric worked with the electric bus provider Zum to deploy vehicles that take kids home in the afternoon, return to the lot, and\u00a0plug back into the grid<\/a>. Because their batteries are so large, they have ample power left over, sending that extra energy to the grid just as demand is spiking. They charge overnight, take kids to school, and plug in again to charge.<\/p>\n

This kind of predictability could make commercial fleets even more powerful for V2G than residential vehicles, experts say. A school bus is on a schedule a utility can rely on \u2014 it\u2019s parked and available at certain times of day and making the rounds at others. Plus, in the summer, they would be available almost constantly. Other fleets, like delivery and government vehicles, follow regular timetables as well.<\/p>\n

Fleet managers can also procure large numbers of the appropriate chargers, buying into the system en masse, compared to a homeowner shelling out for just one. \u201cIn the short term, we see commercial-level V2G applications as more viable due to infrastructure costs, but we expect affordable domestic units to emerge as the market matures and demand grows,\u201d said a spokesperson for Nissan, which has long included bidirectional charging in its electric Leaf.<\/p>\n

Utilities are still figuring out how to coordinate this ballet between vehicle, charger, and grid on a citywide scale. But the payoff could be big, because all those EVs are existing infrastructure that could help reduce the need to build dedicated battery plants to store renewable energy. The less a utility has to build, the fewer costs it has to pass on to ratepayers. And with more V2G, a utility that has to import lots of electricity from a neighbouring state can now store power locally.<\/p>\n

Thus this technology could reduce energy bills. And for participants, their vehicles now provide transportation and energy storage. \u201cIt would seem pretty easy to imagine that that\u2019s going to be cheaper than building just stationary battery storage facilities that do nothing but support the grid in times of need,\u201d said Rudi Halbright, product manager of VGI pilot implementation at Pacific Gas & Electric. \u201cBecause you\u2019re not getting that secondary use with those batteries. They\u2019re kind of sitting around a lot of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

People are more complicated than battery banks, though. Folks with busy lives want the convenience of charging their cars whenever they like and might not even realize how much prices fluctuate throughout the day, said David Victor, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the behavior of EV drivers. Many like the peace of mind of having a fully charged vehicle ready at all times. \u201cI take from that that V2G is going to be really, really hard for fleets outside of professionally managed fleets,\u201d Victor said, \u201cthat we know reliably are going to be available at the time that the V2G asset is going to be needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, given the number of EVs out there, only a fraction of owners need to participate to make a sizable impact. And residential and commercial V2G can complement each other \u2014 and in turn, complement a utility\u2019s larger battery facilities \u2014 a widescale diversification of energy storage that could accelerate the adoption of renewables. \u201cI fundamentally believe that bidirectional electric vehicles are going to be something that no one\u2019s ever heard of, until suddenly everyone has it,\u201d Rauscher said. \u201cOnce we have enough customers enrolled and deployed out there, some percent of customers not plugging in and performing doesn\u2019t really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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