PowerUp

Start and end dates:

January, 2011 to December, 2013

Project website:

Prevailing Stage of Development:

Demonstration

Brief description and/or other information regarding the project:

PowerUp aims to develop the Vehicle-2-Grid (V2G) interface, involving a full development cycle of physical/link-layer specification, charging control protocol design, prototyping, conformance testing, field trials, and standardisation. Its results will ensure that EVs smoothly integrate into emerging smart-grid networks. Thereby the efficiencies resulting from robust grid operation may be achieved; V2G capabilities will smoothen the daily fluctuation of electricity demand and will enable EVs to act as emergency energy supplies. To achieve these desired results, it is essential that any electric vehicle type would be compatible with any European smart-grid network.V2G technology will be developed in liaison with the ongoing ISO/IEC standardisation of the V2G interface, and it will extend existing smart-metering standards and ETSI ITS standards for vehicular communications.

Project full name:

Specification, Implementation, Testing, and Standardisation of Vehicle-2-Grid Interface

Countries involved:

Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia

Project Main Application:

Electric Vehicles and Vehicle2Grid applications

Leading Organisation(s):

BROADBIT SLOVAKIA SRO

Partner Organisation(s):

PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION S.A.

VOLVO TECHNOLOGY AB

Technolution B.V.