42 U.S.C. § 17014 — Research and development into integrating electric vehicles onto the electric grid
submitted 6 years ago by Pub. L. 110-140 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 592 words · no verdicts yet
The Energy Secretary must run research and testing to connect electric vehicles safely to the power grid. A required study covers grid reliability, vehicle impacts, and needed technical standards. The Secretary must consult experts, build a 10-year roadmap, and update the report every three years.
(a) In general. The Secretary* must set up a research, development, and demonstration program to help electric vehicles — including plug-in hybrids — connect to the electric grid.
(b) Vehicles-to-grid integration assessment report. By December 27, 2021, the Secretary must send a report to two congressional committees — House Science, Space, and Technology, and Senate Energy and Natural Resources — studying the opportunities, challenges, and standards needed to connect electric vehicles to the grid.
(1) The report must cover: (A) how electric vehicles can help keep the grid reliable — for demand response, load shaping, emergency power, frequency regulation, and reusing old vehicle batteries for grid storage; (B) how grid connection affects electric vehicles — including battery wear from two-way power flow and effects on manufacturer warranties; (C) the grid impacts of more electric vehicles — needed infrastructure upgrades, strategies to limit those upgrades, how charging changes electricity demand over a day, expected load growth, incentives to shift charging to off-peak times, technology needed for two-way power flow, and smart charging methods; (D) research, done with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, on communication systems, protocols, and charging-station standards; (E) cybersecurity risks from electrifying transportation; and (F) whether the Department's own facilities could use the technologies developed.
(2) As part of the report, the Secretary must create a 10-year roadmap guiding this research program.
(3) In writing the report, the Secretary must consult electric vehicle makers, electric utilities, public utility commissions, battery makers, charging-equipment makers, charging-infrastructure makers, the National Laboratories, and other relevant federal agencies.
(4) The Secretary must update this report every 3 years for as long as the program runs, and resend it to the same two committees.
(c) Program implementation. The Secretary must (1) carry out the report's recommendations, and (2) coordinate across all relevant Department offices — including the Office of Electricity — to meet this section's goals.
(d) Testing capabilities. The Secretary must work with the National Laboratories to build testing capabilities that evaluate, prototype, and improve technologies for connecting electric vehicles to the grid.
The Secretary* shall establish a research, development, and demonstration program to advance the integration of electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, onto the electric grid.
Not later than 1 year after December 27, 2020, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on the results of a study that examines the research, development, and demonstration opportunities, challenges, and standards needed for integrating electric vehicles onto the electric grid.
The report shall include—
an evaluation of the use of electric vehicles to maintain the reliability of the electric grid, including—
the use of electric vehicles for demand response, load shaping, emergency power, and frequency regulation; and
the potential for the reuse of spent electric vehicle batteries for stationary grid storage;
the impact of grid integration on electric vehicles, including—
the impact of bi-directional electricity flow on battery degradation; and
the implications of the use of electric vehicles for grid services on original equipment manufacturer warranties;
the impacts to the electric grid of increased penetration of electric vehicles, including—
the distribution grid infrastructure needed to support an increase in charging capacity;
strategies for integrating electric vehicles onto the distribution grid while limiting infrastructure upgrades;
the changes in electricity demand over a 24-hour cycle due to electric vehicle charging behavior;
the load increases expected from electrifying the transportation sector;
the potential for customer incentives and other managed charging stations strategies to shift charging off-peak;
the technology needed to achieve bi-directional power flow on the distribution grid; and
the implementation of smart charging techniques;
research on the standards needed to integrate electric vehicles with the grid, including communications systems, protocols, and charging stations, in collaboration with the National Institute for Standards and Technology;
the cybersecurity challenges and needs associated with electrifying the transportation sector; and
an assessment of the feasibility of adopting technologies developed under the program established under subsection (a) at Department facilities.
As part of the Vehicles-to-Grid Integration Assessment Report, the Secretary shall develop a 10-year roadmap to guide the research, development, and demonstration program to integrate electric vehicles onto the electric grid.
In developing this report, the Secretary shall consult with relevant stakeholders, including—
electric vehicle manufacturers;
electric utilities;
public utility commissions;
vehicle battery manufacturers;
electric vehicle supply equipment manufacturers;
charging infrastructure manufacturers;
the National Laboratories; and
other Federal agencies, as the Secretary determines appropriate.
The Secretary shall update the report required under this section every 3 years for the duration of the program under section 1 (a) and shall submit the updated report to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.
In carrying out the research, development, demonstration, and commercial application aims of section,2 the Secretary shall—
implement the recommendations set forth in the report in subsection (b); and
coordinate across all relevant program offices at the Department to achieve the goals established in this section, including the Office of Electricity.
The Secretary shall coordinate with the National Laboratories to develop testing capabilities for the evaluation, rapid prototyping, and optimization of technologies enabling integration of electric vehicles onto the electric grid.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 110–140, title I, § 137, as added Pub. L. 116–260, div. Z, title VIII, § 8004(c), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2584.)
- 2020Enacted · Pub. L. 110-140 · 134 Stat. 2584
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