Tomlinson: Will electric vehicles crash the Texas grid? It’s not complicated.
Texans who survived the 2021 blackouts and watched the grid wobble last summer have good reason to worry about charging hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles in the near future.up from 4 percent the year earlier, and could double again. Automakers offered 47 models, including sedans, pickups, SUVs and luxury cars in 2022, and more than 150 are expected in 2025, reported S&P Global Mobility, a data and consulting firm.
Thanks to new tax credits, EV sales are expected to climb dramatically, with more cars plugging into the grid. But electricity company executives insist we have nothing to worry about and say EVs will help stabilize the grid, not overload it. Last week, I attended the Energy Thought Summit in Austin, where the best and brightest minds in the electric power industry compare notes. They discussed how additional revenue from EV charging will help finance and justify desperately needed grid upgrades.
“Not only can the grid take it; it’s good for the grid,” Drew Higgins, senior director of products and services for San Antonio’s CPS Energy, told the audience. “EVs are good, nice, schedulable loads that charge at night, off-peak. And you can incentivize people to charge when you want them to and where you want them to. And in the future, maybe even provide energy back.”, and you can see how demand for power swings over 24 hours, and with it the price ERCOT pays for electricity.
“We compensate our customers for basically working with the utility to charge when and where we want them to. And then on top of that, we have different types of rebates based, once again, upon that scheduling,” Higgins explained.
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