{"id":88892,"date":"2026-07-23T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/88892\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:36:11","slug":"massachusetts-utilities-add-v2g-to-800mw-flexibility-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/88892\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts utilities add V2G to 800MW flexibility programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utilities Eversource and National Grid will enable customers in Massachusetts to enrol vehicle-to-grid (V2G) -capable EVs in their demand side flexibility programme.<\/p>\n

Working with distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) platform provider EnergyHub, Sunrun\u2019s grid services arm, and V2G platform provider The Mobility House, Eversource and National Grid are bringing V2G onto the ConnectedSolutions programme.<\/p>\n

The programme uses flexible capacity from thermostats, battery energy storage, and commercial and industrial resources to reduce grid strain. It operates across five states, orchestrating more than 280,000 participating distributed energy resources (DERs), and over 800MW of flexible capacity.<\/p>\n

Seth Frader-Thompson, president of EnergyHub, described ConnectedSolutions as the \u201cgold standard\u201d for how utilities can scale virtual power plants (VPPs).<\/p>\n

Consumers enrol qualifying devices and receive incentives for adjusting their usage patterns during peak demand.<\/p>\n

Related:Edenred acquires The Mobility House installation and maintenance services subsidiary<\/a><\/p>\n

Currently, the V2G integration will be offered to customers in Massachusetts, while Eversource and National Grid establish what benefits the technology can offer as part of the broader programme.<\/p>\n

Unlike other V2G trials, the initiative will use the additional storage capacity of EV batteries alongside other flexible capacity, as opposed to orchestrating it as a standalone asset.<\/p>\n

National Grid and Eversource said that the participation of V2G-capable EVs will help lower costs for all customers. The utilities also stated that the grid benefits V2G-capable EVs can provide are \u201cpotentially substantial\u201d, and participating drivers will be rewarded with incentives that \u201csupport the value they deliver to the grid\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US has seen relatively slow movement on domestic V2G, particularly compared to fleet adoption of the technology, because the energy savings available may not be as great as in Europe, or consumers may not be so engaged<\/a>. Driving that engagement is a piece of the puzzle that many in the industry have come up against.<\/p>\n

Various trials to establish what drives consumer engagement \u2013 namely messaging versus economic incentives \u2013 have run, and perhaps the integration into an already successful programme in this case has promise.<\/p>\n

The complicated regulation and technology of it, too, has presented a barrier, and in many cases domestic EVs are currently being used as grid balancing assets in managed charging schemes<\/a>, including one Eversource collaborated on with AmpUp in Connecticut<\/a> that was just selected to scale across the state.<\/p>\n

Related:Australia’s largest residential vehicle-to-grid trial expands to 1,000 households<\/a><\/p>\n

Both National Grid and Eversource are also actively engaged in fleet-level V2G initiatives, with the former currently leveraging V2G for light-to-medium-duty fleets within ConnectedSolutions, beginning with school buses.<\/p>\n

Eversource, meanwhile, is engaging with districts as part of its ConnectedSolutions+ offer, a pilot offering greater incentives for demand response participation in areas that are particularly grid-constrained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utilities Eversource and National Grid will enable customers in Massachusetts to enrol vehicle-to-grid (V2G) -capable EVs in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21249],"tags":[2580],"class_list":["post-88892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national-grid","tag-national-grid"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116969562561702475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}