Veolia Successfully Completes Pioneering V2G Trial in the UK: Waste Collection Trucks Become a Flexible Energy Source to Boost Energy Security
12 Enero 2024 - 5:46AM
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Regulatory News:
> UK’s largest waste collection fleet operator, Veolia
(Paris:VIE) plans to electrify its entire vehicle lineup in the
country by 2040
> This transformation would enable the company to provide
200 MW of flexible power capacity daily
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At its “Deep Dive Energy” event in London, Veolia unveiled a
world-first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) innovation that will enable waste
collection trucks to power UK homes by feeding back stored energy
from their batteries to the grid.
UK’s largest waste collection fleet operator, Veolia plans to
electrify all of its 1,800 RCV’s in the country by 2040. This
transformation will enable the company to provide to the grid
around 200 MW of flexible power capacity daily, an equivalent of
the evening peak energy demand of over 150,000 homes, supporting
the country's energy security.
With electricity demand in the UK expected to double by 2050 and
Government’s targets to decarbonise the National Grid by 2035,
batteries have a role to play as they can not only recharge from
the electrical grid, but they can also feed back stored energy from
their batteries to the grid thanks to V2G. This can provide energy
during peak demand periods, contribute to grid stability by
regulating frequency and voltage, and even store excess renewable
energy for later use.
Veolia has taken the potential of this technology to a new level
by applying it to collection vehicles, which are ideally suited to
V2G as their batteries are six times larger than those in an
average car, and the fleet is usually parked at peak energy
consumption times for the National Grid.
The first phase of the trial performed by Veolia has been
successfully completed, enabling 110 KW of energy to be charged and
discharged from two specially designed bi-directional vehicles,
enough to supply power to 110 households for over two hours during
peak evening hours. Veolia now plans to expand the trial and test
it out on the streets, using Westminster council collection
vehicles to pilot the innovation.
In addition, Veolia will maximize the use of local decarbonizing
energy from its waste-to-energy plants to power its vehicles,
creating a perfect circular loop. This will include the Landmann
Way vehicle depot in North London, powered by low-carbon
electricity from the SELCHP plant.
Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia, said: "We need to
innovate in local decarbonizing energy and transform our
traditional approaches to take advantage of untapped sources. This
requires a change of mindset and a collective willingness to
rethink the way we produce, distribute and consume energy. The
success of the V2G demonstration illustrates this perfectly. By
enabling electric vehicles to become active players in the power
grid, we are harnessing their potential to balance energy supply
and demand, reduce carbon emissions and promote renewable
energy".
Gavin Graveson, Senior Executive Vice President Veolia
Northern Europe Zone said: “Flexibility is the key to
super-charging the UK’s energy security and the transition to a
smarter and more sustainable market. We have to adapt to increasing
energy demand and adopt smarter energy systems to bring resilient,
dependable and low carbon energy to our homes and businesses.
Flexibility innovations like this one have the potential to
revolutionise the way we manage our energy usage and represent a
huge opportunity to cut costs and carbon”.
For this project Veolia has partnered with electric vehicle
charger manufacturer, Turbo Power Systems (TPS), vehicle repower
experts Magnetic Systems Technology (Magtec) and EV charge point
management software provider Fuuse, with support from technology
provider, Advantics.
Veolia has a strong history of innovation in developing local
decarbonizing energy solutions for the benefit of local communities
and industries. The Group operates 10 Energy Recovery Facilities in
the UK. These facilities take around 2.3 million tonnes of
non-recyclable waste and transform this into electricity for over
400,000 homes, and this combined generating capacity of 180MWe
takes pressure off the stretched UK electrical grid and effectively
avoids using fossil fuels for generation. Some of these facilities
also produce heating for communities through district heating
networks, by using combined heat and power technology.
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ABOUT VEOLIA
Veolia Group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological
transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 213,000
employees, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical
solutions for the management of water, waste and energy that are
contributing to a radical turnaround of the current situation.
Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop
access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew
them. In 2022, the Veolia group provided 111 million inhabitants
with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation, produced nearly
44 million megawatt hours and recovered 61 million tonnes of waste.
Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) achieved consolidated
revenue of 42.885 billions euros in 2022.
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