VIRTUAL
POWER PLANT
In near
future, we all shall be familiar with the word ‘’ virtual power plant’’ and
shall be available, without any extra investment at each of our houses.
It is fanatic, more so for those who are
planning to install an inverter or buy a low-wattage electricity generator.
Yes, it
is fascinating, as we shall be undertaking an elemental shifting from
‘’centralized generation’’, wherein we need to invest in million but as a
substitute/alternative we can make use of an ‘under-utilized’ Electric
Vehicle-EV, most of us be owning through the method of ‘bio –directional
charging’.
Please
note: This is a bonus of thrilling bonus for each of the proud owners of
electric –vehicles.
What
does a common man understand by ‘’bi-directional charging’’?
It
refers to the possibilities of ‘reversing the energy stored in the battery of
an electric vehicle either to the grid (V2G) or for powering or meeting the
energy requirement of your home(V2H), which is exactly the reverse of charging
the battery by using the grid power.
So, both
the grid and batter can work as the source of power depending on the situation.
We need
to use convert Alternating Current (AC) from the grid to the batter through an
internal charger or converter before
stored
in the battery, whereas we need to convert the Direct Current (DC) of the
batter to Alternating current through a bi-directional charger.