{"id":8979,"date":"2011-11-06T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2011-11-06T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:51:14","slug":"miller-mccune-vehicle-to-grid-a-new-spin-on-car-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8979","title":{"rendered":"Miller-McCune | Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vehicletogrid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8981\" title=\"vehicletogrid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vehicletogrid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vehicletogrid.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vehicletogrid-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vehicletogrid-400x227.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 15 years, Kempton, who directs the University of Delaware\u2019s Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration, has pushed the idea that fleets of electric vehicles \u2014 rather than being another big draw on the electric grid \u2014 could provide valuable backup power on demand to utilities. This would reduce the need for costly new generating plants, and help ensure a reliable supply of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Utilities pay each other billions of dollars a year for such backup power through wholesale electricity markets, and Kempton believes that a hefty slice of that pie could be paid to electric-vehicle owners instead. Some industry analysts agree that the approach, known as \u201cvehicle-to-grid,\u201d could take off; a December 2010 report from the business research firm Global Data conservatively projected a global market for vehicle-to-grid that would pay $2.3 billion to electric vehicle owners by 2012 \u2014 and $40 billion by 2020. Kempton and his colleagues have made some influential converts in policy circles, too. Marc Spitzer, a commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has described the plan as \u201cthe salvation of the automotive industry in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at Miller-McCune:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/environment\/vehicle-to-grid-a-new-spin-on-car-payments-36697\/\">Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 years, Kempton, who directs the University of Delaware\u2019s Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration, has pushed the idea that fleets of electric vehicles \u2014 rather than being another big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[42,475,45,25],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-climate-action","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-energy","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}