“We are on the verge of developing a renewable energy ecosystem that can be compared to the dawn of the internet age.”

“By including electric vehicles in our virtual power plant, we are making one big step by using the charging of electric cars to simultaneously balance supply and demand in the power grid and thus stabilize it. This means that we can already use the enormous storage potential of e-cars today and contribute to being able to switch off fossil-fuel power plants earlier.”

TenneT and sonnen have announced that they’ve powered the German grid with electric cars. TenneT is a top electricity network operator in Europe, and sonnen produces and manages stationary battery storage systems. Working together, TenneT tapped into the electricity stored in electric car batteries that are part of the sonnenCommunity. It did so when there were short-term fluctuations in the electricity supply on the grid, using the car batteries to absorb those short-term fluctuations.