PG&E Customers Invited to Pre-Enroll in Groundbreaking ‘Vehicle-to-Everything’ Pilot Programs, Leveraging Electric Vehicle Battery Power for Resilience Benefits and Helping Reduce Customer Bills
December 06 2022 - 11:07AM
Business Wire
Programs Will Offer Financial Incentives to
More than 1,000 Customers to Test Their Electric Vehicles as Mobile
Batteries, Grid Resources
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced the
launch of a pre-enrollment website for customers interested in
joining the company’s three upcoming Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
pilot programs.
The new programs will offer customers financial incentives to
integrate new bidirectional EV charging technology, which allows a
customer’s electric vehicle to become a mobile battery, capable of
storing electricity that can be used to provide onsite power or
send power back to the grid during periods of peak electricity
demand.
As outlined in its first ever Climate Strategy Report, released
in June, PG&E aims to support three million EVs on the road in
its service area by 2030, with goals of more than two million of
them equipped with vehicle-to-grid capabilities.
PG&E will test the technologies in a variety of settings,
including homes, businesses and with local PG&E microgrids in
select high wildfire-risk areas. PG&E is anticipating enrolling
approximately 1,000 customers with eligible electric vehicles and
bidirectional charging stations in the residential pilot, 200
customers in the commercial pilot, and 200 customers in the
microgrid pilot.
Pre-enrollment allows PG&E customers to express interest in
participating, determine eligibility, and reserve a rebate and an
opportunity to fully enroll in the programs in 2023 as more
vehicles and other required equipment become more widely
available.
“Bidirectional EV charging is a game-changer for both the energy
and transportation sectors. These pilot programs will help
determine how to maximize the cost-effectiveness of bidirectional
charging technology in providing a variety of customer and grid
benefits,” said Aaron August, PG&E’s Vice President, Utility
Partnerships and Innovation.
Visit PG&E’s V2X pilot programs pre-enrollment website at
www.pge.com/VGI for more information about the technology and to
explore pre-enrolling in the programs.
V2X Pilot Program Incentives
Customer benefits of PG&E’s V2X pilots include leveraging
the EV battery as a backup power source and using the EV battery to
earn money and offset energy usage through participation in demand
response and other managed charging programs, which ultimately help
reduce customer bills, integrate renewable energy, and support the
grid.
Each of the new pilot programs offer specific financial
incentives for participating customers and additional benefits for
those in disadvantaged and priority communities as identified in
California Assembly Bill 841. The upfront incentives for the V2X
Pilots along with the performance-based incentives and enrollment
in the Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) can provide
additional savings to help offset the costs of purchasing and
installing a bidirectional EV charger.
Incentives include:
V2X Residential
- Up to $2,500 upfront ($3,000 for customers in disadvantaged
communities)
- Up to $2,175 additional for providing stored energy to the grid
in times of high demand through auto-enrollment in the ELRP demand
response program.
V2X Commercial
- Up to $2,500 upfront ($3,000 for customers in disadvantaged
communities) for installing a 3-phase bidirectional charger less
than 50 kW.
- Up to $3,625 additional for providing stored energy to the grid
in times of high demand through auto-enrollment in the ELRP demand
response program.
- Up to $4,500 upfront ($5,000 for customers in disadvantaged
communities) for installing a 3-phase bidirectional charger greater
than or equal to 50 kW.
- Up to $3,625 additional for providing stored energy to the grid
in times of high demand through auto-enrollment in the ELRP demand
response program.
V2X Microgrids
- Up to $3,750 for providing stored energy to the grid in times
of high demand through auto-enrollment in the ELRP demand response
program.
- Can stack incentives with V2X Residential or Commercial
Approved by the California Public Utilities Commission in May,
the new programs are separate and in addition to PG&E’s
collaborations announced last March with both General Motors and
Ford Motor Company, and will help to inform the Department of
Energy Memorandum of Understanding that PG&E and a
collaboration of industry, government and labor leaders signed in
April focused on accelerating V2X technologies.
Support for EV Adoption
More than 420,000 EVs—one in six in the country—are registered
in PG&E’s service area of Northern and Central California,
where customers are often early adopters of new clean energy
technologies.
PG&E has played an active role in reducing customers’
barriers to EV adoption through charging infrastructure programs,
rebates, and special EV rates for both residential and business
customers that help make charging simpler and more affordable.
PG&E also offers tools to help customers understand costs
when adopting an EV. To learn more about PG&E’s EV offerings,
visit pge.com/ev.
About PG&E
PG&E, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a
combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16
million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central
California. For more information, visit pge.com and
pge.com/news.
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