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V2G-SIM, One of the Seven Winners at LBNL of the 2015 R&D 100 Awards

November 18, 2015

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has won seven 2015 R&D 100 awards. This year’s winners include a high-capacity anode for rechargeable batteries, a technique to synthesize the lightest, strongest material ever made, and a new way to analyze and visualize mass spectrometry data.

V2G-Sim quantifies second-by-second energy use for any number of different plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) while driving under varying driving conditions, or while charging. With V2G-Sim, stakeholders in the electricity grid industry, automobile industry, and policy and regulatory sectors can predict how different vehicles will perform for different drivers, and how different vehicles will interact with the electricity grid.

Grid operators can use V2G-Sim to forecast the electricity demand for any time interval throughout the day, and to notify generators of how much electricity to produce. V2G-Sim will also help industry and policy stakeholders to better understand how electric vehicles can integrate with renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, with the electricity grid by storing excess energy produced during windy or sunny periods, or providing energy back to the grid during peak hours.