A Vehicle-to-Load Playbook: Turn Your Customer’s EV Into a Home Power Source

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The bidirectional EV era is here, allowing EV owners to use the large battery bank sitting in their garage in new ways. EVs can send stored energy to the electric grid to perform grid services when called upon by the utility. This is vehicle-to-grid (V2G). Homeowners can also utilizing their EV battery bank to power their home in outages or as needed. This is vehicle-to-load (V2L).

V2G is an intriguing concept, but in its very early days. Meanwhile, V2L is available for your customers right now. In “A Vehicle-to-Load Playbook,” a special report from Solar Builder and FranklinWH, we explain how the equipment you install today to utilize V2L can help seamlessly enable V2G capabilities when those standards and technology catch up.

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Inside the Vehicle-to-Load Playbook

  • The equipment needed for V2L
  • V2L vs. home batteries
  • The importance of energy management systems (EMS) and AC coupling
  • How to be V2G ready

“The EMS stabilizes your microgrid,” says Douglas Amarhanow, Product Manager with FranklinWH, in the report. “You have a bunch of different power sources, and the EMS will balance power sources in a grid following or grid forming mode, and that’s also known as your voltage source, or your current source.”

Excerpts from the V2L Playbook

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Vehicle-to-Load Case Study

In this video, a FranklinWH Certified Installer explains the new Vehicle-to-Load solution available through the FranklinWH System’s aGate intelligent energy management controller. By plugging his EV into the FranklinWH aGate, he backs up his entire home when solar isn’t enough. Learn more about this feature at franklinwh.com. Special thanks to Solar Pro Energy Systems for their partnership in developing this case study.

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