📋 Tender Overview
The EVVE project (First European Large-Scale Vehicle-To-Grid Demonstrator for an efficient decarbonisation of the energy sector), coordinated by EDF with the support of DREEV, aims to demonstrate the potential of the Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) innovative technology to contribute significantly to the reduction of GHG emissions of the energy sector. EVVE implements over 10 years a Virtual Power Plant of 800 V2G bidirectional charging stations, using the Electric Vehicles (EV) energy storage capacities, reaching an aggregated capacity of up to 8,36MW, and enabling to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 25 000 tons. Located in France, EVVE delivers concrete proof of the V2G economic and environmental benefits, while generating value for all the stakeholders involved, in particular EV owners. Through remote control of the V2G chargers, EVVE is able to implement a smart management of EV batteries charging and discharging processes, based on electricity price and CO2 market signals, enabling to reduce electricity peak loads and provide ancillary services - such as frequency regulation - to the grid while ensuring EV users- mobility needs. EVVE is implemented in a very favourable technological context, as it will build on the return on experience of small-scale demo projects using the Japanese CHAdeMO standard for V2G, while benefitting from the emergence, from 2023, of the CCS (Combined Charging System) European V2G standard. EVVE aims at being a catalyser of V2G industrialization, giving proper signals to V2G value chain stakeholders, especially EV manufacturers, to pave the way for the massive deployment of large-scale V2G schemes in the EU. The financial support provided by the Innovation Fund will unlock EVVE's development and implementation, the very 1st large-scale commercial size demonstration of a technology so far proven at small-scale, enabling to de-risk the project.
