Some Massachusetts EV owners will soon be able to earn incentives for sending electricity from their car batteries back to the grid when demand spikes.
Utilities Eversource and National Grid are adding residential vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging to ConnectedSolutions, their existing virtual power plant programs in Massachusetts. Qualifying customers with V2G-capable EVs can earn incentives by sending stored electricity back to the grid during high-demand periods.
The tech can do the job. The bigger question is whether utilities offer enough money and make enrollment easy enough to persuade Massachusetts EV drivers to hand over some of their battery power when the grid needs it most.
