V2G coming to Cybertruck soon

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I have no idea what areas of the country your electric service providers pay anything that would remotely make this worth it, but in California with PG&E they charge you an average of around $0.42/KWh and give you like $0.03/KWh back for it if you provide it through your solar. It's a racket.

I recall seeing sometime post somewhere that a power wall V2G/Virtual Power Plan (VPP) participant was getting paid either $2.00 or $2.50/KWh during these power events. Don’t know if that was an average, a flat price, or something else, but utilities definitely need to make it worth our while to participate in this.

I haven’t spent much time researching this yet, but this is very different than regular Net Metering, during which times we get jack $hit back.

To my knowledge this is focused on those power events where they likely pair demand response / efficiency programs (big retailers might turn up their AC by 5 degrees or do other things to reduce usage in return for getting paid a decent chunk of change) alongside bringing more electricity to the grid to avoid the grid going down.

https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/virtual-power-plant

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