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Hello Sunshine!
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Can you break up with your car?
Mobility as a Service challenge at the Zuidas
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Smart Kids Lab
Measure water, noise, air, soil and light with self-made instruments
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Bright minds, bright future
Smart City Academy
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Mailman or super man?
Cleaning up neighborhoods through the eyes of the mailmen.
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Share the Power
Meet Jouliette
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Trash for Treasure
Zero Waste Lab
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Baby you can charge my car!
Vehicle2Grid
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Run, run, run!
BAMBEA
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Amsterdammers:Make your city!
Designathon: Where children design better futures!
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Building our future together
Dutch Smart City Strategy
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In cold blood
Smart cooling and heating
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Go with the flow
Mobility Portal
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Beat the waste
The circular festival solution
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Game on
...and off ...and on again
Stadium powered by used car batteries
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Tada!!!
Designing Responsible Cities
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Smart supply, Sustainable science
Logistics Hub
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Living off the grid
City-zen Virtual Power Plant
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Digital playground
IoT Living Lab
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WeMakeThe.City
Great again!
The festival that makes cities better
Baby you can charge my car!
Vehicle2Grid

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) is a concept originally developed in Japan to provide people with electricity from their electric car during a power outage.
ENGIE Services, Alliander, Amsterdam Smart City, Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Mitsubishi Motors joined forces to investigate whether or not this clean energy storing solution could be interesting for us as well. During a real-life pilot, the V2G technology was tested and several business cases were explored in regards to the revenue model.
This pilot aims to increase the implementation of electric vehicles and the use of solar panels which supports in treating and using our environment optimally. It also helps households become more self-sufficient.

The supply of solar power is growing rapidly! Great news, since our daily energy consumption is increasing as well. However, we could benefit from this growing supply even more if we were able to store the generated electricity in times of overproduction. Electric vehicles offer great storage potential. Residents can produce and store their own energy and use it when and how they need it.

V2G technology – bi directional charging - enables electric cars to be used as (temporary) batteries, for example to power households. Additionally, by combining multiple batteries, accumulated capacity can become large enough to trade energy on the wholesale markets or to effectively prevent unbalance in the electricity grid.

Next steps
There is a long way ahead before the V2G solution can be used by you or your surroundings. Facility managers and fleet owners will keep their sensors on high alert for developments. Possible V2G developments could be Vehicle to Office. A V2G proposition that could be very interesting for companies and organizations with a large EV fleet. Imagine what large scale that would mean!
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Join us during a special Vehicle to Grid event on December 6th where V2G specialists and other stakeholders and professionals will meet to discuss Vehicle to Grid opportunities and developments.
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Contact
Annelies van der Stoep
annelies@amsterdamsmartcity.com
Partners involved in this project:
Mitsubishi Motors / Alliander / Hogeschool van Amsterdam / ENGIE Services / Amsterdam Smart City
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