{"id":32868,"date":"2025-04-18T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32868"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:19:58","slug":"vehicle-to-grid-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vehicle-to-grid-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), in partnership with IIT Bombay, has launched a pilot V2G project to test its feasibility in the state.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G)<\/strong> is a set of technologies that enable <strong>Electric Vehicles (EVs)<\/strong> to send <strong>stored electricity back to the power grid<\/strong> when they are not in use.<\/li>\n<li>When an <strong>EV is idle and connected via a bi-directional charger<\/strong>, it can act as a <strong>decentralised battery energy storage system<\/strong>, contributing electricity to the grid.<\/li>\n<li>V2G supports both <strong>charging (Grid to Vehicle \u2013 G2V)<\/strong> and <strong>discharging (Vehicle to Grid \u2013 V2G)<\/strong> of EV batteries, creating a <strong>two-way energy flow<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>EV batteries act as a <strong>load<\/strong> on the grid during charging, which can be managed using tools like <strong>Time of Use (ToU) tariffs<\/strong> and <strong>smart charging<\/strong> to reduce stress during peak hours.<\/li>\n<li>During discharging, EV batteries serve as <strong>distributed energy sources<\/strong>, providing electricity during <strong>peak demand periods<\/strong> or when <strong>renewable energy (RE)<\/strong> is low.<\/li>\n<li>V2G is part of a broader framework including <strong>Vehicle to Home (V2H)<\/strong> and <strong>Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)<\/strong> applications, but <strong>V2G is the most widely explored use case<\/strong> globally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Industry\/how-can-v2g-technology-help-indias-power-sector-explained\/article69462057.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is a set of technologies that enable Electric Vehicles (EVs) to send stored electricity back to the power grid when they are not in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,23,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-32868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-vehicle-to-grid-technology","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}