EVSol
active 3 months, 3 weeks agoSolar-integrated public buildings with vehicle-to-building (V2B) solutions to accelerate green transition
Challenge/gaps:
1. EV users often don’t have conducive charging options at their own apartment buildings or housing complexes which either lack electric charging infrastructure or have inadequate charging options. These challenges open the door for enhancing charging possibilities in public buildings equipped with rooftop PV where employees work daily, enabling their EVs to use smart e-charging.
2. Public buildings with rooftop solar are increasingly encountering the challenge of “curtailment” which is where solar power is flooding the grid (especially on sunny days) leading to a decline in demand, and electricity prices becoming negative. This leads to curtailment where megawatts or gigawatts of solar power are curtailed – meaning essentially “thrown away.”
3. Municipalities face challenges in suburban areas with rapid residential construction, making them subject to grid capacity limitations.
Central solution:
Solar PV-installed buildings and EV charging infrastructure in a municipality ecosystem come together and mutually benefit each other in an approach of V2B. This could potentially decrease the need of the building owner to purchase electricity from the grid (savings coming through cutting of
transmission costs and levies). The EV owner gets free electricity from the PV and avoids taxes for the received electricity.
