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Air Force Base Touts First Working Vehicle-to-Grid Interconnection

July 28, 2015

Soon, for the first time, a group of researchers will connect a fleet of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) to the electricity grid in Southern California in a test of the connected fleet's ability to provide the grid with power and excess storage capacity.

Furthermore, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James will be getting a demonstration of the project in August.