CECS 'green team' winners
A 2008 Eckermann-TJA prize for ideas on using broadband communications to assist in promoting sustainability has been won by a team from CECS for their idea to use electric cars (to reduce greenhouse emissions) that can act as storage nodes to plug in to the electricity grid. The prize is awarded by the Telecommunication Society of Australia, which this year attracted several international entries.
Dr Mike Dennis in the Department of Engineering, and ICT student, Bethany Thompson, co-authored the paper that will be published in the TSA journal soon, and which brought $10,000 in prize money.
Congratulations to both from staff and students in CECS!
Vehicle to Grid using Broadband Communications
M. DENNIS and B. THOMPSON
College of Engineering and Computer Science
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Abstract
The impending mass electrification of road transport, driven by concerns for climate change and sustainability, enables an opportunity to substantially reduce greenhouse emissions from passenger vehicles and to simultaneously provide services to the electricity grid. Electricity grids are characterised by a lack of storage capacity which can be provided by grid connected electric vehicles charging and discharging their batteries under centralised control. This paper argues that the Vehicle to Grid (V2G) methodology offers operational, financial and sustainability synergies between vehicles and electricity grids. Broadband communications is an essential service to facilitate the aggregation, distributed control and metering of V2G services.
