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A brief presentation to promote discussion on EV fast charge infrastructure and its add-on benefits. What sort of possibilities does the storage associated with some fast charge installations, bring to the market? What is the scope and scale of the new resource? Will storage technology be robust enough to participate in the ancillary service market? Will utilities and ISOs embrace privately owned assets? Will communication standards be in place and utility processes formalized to take advantage of the resource? Electrical grid attached storage is not new. But the introduction of such a large amount of new, privately owned storage, such as Tesla Motors’, may impact the market and create new opportunity for multiple participants.
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© Jim Friedl 2013
Not Just a Fast FillPossible Additional Benefits of Fast Charging Infrastructure
© Jim Friedl 2013
Fast DC charging, like the supercharger solution from Tesla Motors™, either depends on or can benefit from battery storage.
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A 12 space supercharging station can have 3+ MWh of battery storage connected to 480V, 3ph, 500A service to accommodate charge load.
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What could all that grid attached storage do while waiting to service customers and what might it mean for new business models?
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It can help address the intermittent nature of alternative energy sources like wind and solar.
Although alternative energy currently makes up only a small portion of the overall grid’s energy sources, addressing resource power spikes will increase in importance.
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It can supply businesses and retail establishments with emergency back up during outages.
Distributed large scale UPS, appropriately administered, can help alleviate service disruption and reduce regional recovery time.
Image from Bradley BermanThe New York Times
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Regulation Services Signal Negative - Charging / Positive - Discharge
As a result of recent FERC rulings, participation and fair compensation in the ancillary services market is now possible.
Providing regional Independent Systems Operators (ISO’s) and Utilities with frequency regulation and other services has become a possibility.
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Fast charging stations that employ battery storage, like the solutions being brought to market by Tesla Motors™, have the capability to distribute significant amounts of energy storage throughout numerous utility regions.
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If Tesla Motors™ matches their planned deployment schedule they will not only promote the functionality of EVs but could also advance the promise of smart grid attached storage.
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One exciting aspect of such a roll out is the possibility of new business and marketing relationships that might be formed as a result of combining infrastructure need, market opportunity, and financial return.
