The Distributed Energy Storage group on LinkedIn – “If costs come down enough, energy storage has the potential to significantly alter the grid as we know it”
The European Union stoRE project – “Facilitating energy storage to allow high penetration of intermittent renewable energy”
The Electricity Storage Network – “An industry group for companies and organisations that are active in the deployment, design, consumption and research of electricity storage for network connected applications”
UK Energy Storage – The UK Energy Storage group of the Renewable Energy Association
The Energy Storage Research Network – “Bringing together researchers from academic, industrial and policy domains, with an interest in energy storage and its application to future low carbon energy systems”
The Energy Research Partnership’s report on “Energy storage in the UK”
The Energy Storage Project at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Are there real examples of vehicle to grid in operation?
If so where?
What switching technology is used?
Not in the UK as far as I am aware!
However there are certainly trials underway in the US and China . See for example:
and
There is V2G research going on in the UK however. See for example:
http://www.artemis-ioe.eu/events/presentations/26.09.2013_NESEM_2013_Toulouse_C.Gould_University_of_Sheffield_On-Board_Bidirectional_Chargers_for_EVs_Final.pdf