Congress Charging Infrastructure Netherlands

We Drive Solar wins Charging Infrastructure Innovation Award

We Drive Solar ontving de Award uit handen van dagvoorzitter Rick Nieman.

The Dutch Charging Infrastructure Innovation Award was presented at the Congress on Charging Infrastructure in Arnhem on Tuesday. We Drive Solar walked away with the prizes for its bi-directional AC charger.

Every year, the Laadinfra Innovation Award goes to an innovation that boosts charging in terms of infrastructure. This year, three companies were nominated: ElaadNederland with its GridShield, Powercrumbs for Biogas, and We Drive Solar which presented its bi-directional AC charger. In the end, it was the latter that walked away with the honour.

We Drive Solar’s bi-directional AC charger is an innovative charging station that not only charges electric cars, but also lets them feed their energy back to the grid via a standard AC connection. Combined with the Renault 5, smart control and car sharing, this solution offers a scalable way to deploy car batteries as temporary energy storage, helping to reduce grid congestion and make best use of locally generated solar energy.

Car battery as storage

We Drive Solar is the first in the market to offer a solution for a local renewable energy system by using the car battery for storage and flexible use of renewable energy. Via the specially developed Solar City charging station, the stored energy can now also be ónt charged to homes and the grid.
This method provides maximum efficiency of local energy generation: using and storing energy when power is cheap and sustainable, and using power from its own buffer when power is expensive.

The Charging Infrastructure Innovation Award was presented at the fifth Charging Infrastructure Congress. That took place in Arnhem on Tuesday, and set a record with 397 visitors.

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Matthieu Van Steenkiste

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

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