Delaware has key role in creating electric vehicles that add power to the grid

Willett Kempton had an idea way back in 1997 about an electric car that would do more than just allow an owner to commute to work without using a drop of gas.

The University of Delaware professor wanted that same vehicle to store power and be able to pump it back onto the utility grid, in the process helping make power sources such as windmills and solar panels more economically feasible.

By 2005, Kempton, the director of the University of Delaware’s Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration, had his idea fully worked out. Two years later he demonstrated it and in 2011 he convinced NRG Energy to back his work.

Written by
Ryan Marshall
The News Journal

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