Power shares

[Snoopy]

on last weeks Tesla earnings call, Tesla announced that their auto-bidder system will be expanding to consumer Powerwalls, which will enable owners to put there batteries into a battery pool that takes advantage of high & low spot power pricing to buy & sell power for profit via an automated software solution. Not sure when it will roll out in New Zealand, but hopefully it is coming.

In what country and what market does the 'auto-bidder' system operate? I imagine that such a system would require the local network and power seller to come on board. Last year Nissan got into the news with their "V2X vision" that was going to have Nissan Leaf cars plugged into the grid all over the country. The NZ press release that sparked the media stories seems to have been pulled from the Nissan NZ website. But the quote below is from the Nissan Leaf brochure on the Nissan NZ website

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V2X (Vehicle to Everything): The Nissan LEAF is one of the only EVs that comes capable of Bi-directional charging. This means that not only is the LEAF able to take on and store charge, but it is also able to provide charge back from the car to the home, business or electricity grid

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Vector seemed keen at one point, but the reference below is from September 2017

https://www.vector.co.nz/articles/gi...ectric-vehicle

Two years later it is still a research project

https://www.vector.co.nz/articles/tu...-power-sources

Northpower, based in Whangarei, has started a trial

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU20...ca-funding.htm

It is interesting that the University of Canterbury is supporting this project, rather than something more local to them. In fact, I can't find any reference to 'Vehicle to Grid' trials south of the Bombay hills. Anyone know of any? Having citizens via their own batteries, either house or car mounted, feeding power back into the local grid does seem to be off the radar of most lines companies and gentailers in NZ these days.

SNOOPY