INVENT – INTELLIGENT ELECTRIC VEHICLE INTEGRATION
The INVENT project demonstrate solutions that yield and quantify multiple real-world benefits of advanced vehicle-grid integration (VGI) applications for electric vehicle fleets and pave the way for commercial large-scale deployments in California
This project is funded by the California Energy Commission as part of the EPIC program. It started in 2017 and will end in 2020.
The INVENT project is located at the UCSD campus in La Jolla.
The UCSD microgrid project supplies electricity, heating, and cooling for 450 hectare campus with a daily population of 45,000.
It consists of two 13.5 MW gas turbines, one 3 MW steam turbine, and a 1.2 MW solar-cell installation that together supply 85% of campus electricity needs, 95% of its heating, and 95% of its cooling.
INVENT deploys up to 50 EVs in two fleets: 1. A commuter fleet (workplace charging on campus) and 2. A work fleet (campus facilities, campus transportation).
The project test and analyses the economics and regulatory issues that need to be addressed to pave the way for large scale EV fleet deployment in California.
Both V1G and V2G EVs are deployed and the services span grid services as well as behind-the-meter services.
