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Vehicle-to-Grid

A Sociotechnical Transition Beyond Electric Mobility

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Comprehensively characterizes the barriers and future of vehicle-to-grid technology
  • Presents a detailed policy road-map to guide decision-makers in any country that wants to implement vehicle-to-grid
  • Explores the latest research in the field synthesizing challenges across technical, economic, political, and social spectrum's

Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlii
  2. History, Definition, and Status of V2G

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 1-31
  3. The Potential Benefits of V2G

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 33-64
  4. The Technical Challenges to V2G

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 65-89
  5. The Economic and Business Challenges to V2G

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 91-116
  6. The Regulatory and Political Challenges to V2G

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 117-139
  7. Consumers, Society and V2G

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 141-165
  8. V2G Deployment Pathways and Policy Recommendations

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 167-190
  9. Realizing and Problematizing a V2G Future

    • Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool
    Pages 191-233
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 235-237

About this book

​This book defines and charts the barriers and future of vehicle-to-grid technology: a technology that could dramatically reduce emissions, create revenue, and accelerate the adoption of battery electric cars. This technology connects the electric power grid and the transportation system in ways that will enable electric vehicles to store renewable energy and offer valuable services to the electricity grid and its markets. To understand the complex features of this emergent technology, the authors explore the current status and prospect of vehicle-to-grid, and detail the sociotechnical barriers that may impede its fruitful deployment. The book concludes with a policy roadmap to advise decision-makers on how to optimally implement vehicle-to-grid and capture its benefits to society while attempting to avoid the impediments discussed earlier in the book.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business and Technology, Aarhus University , Herning, Denmark

    Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens

  • Department of Business and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

    Johannes Kester

  • Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Unit , Falmer, UK

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

About the authors

Lance Noel is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is lead researcher on a $1.6 million grant on the sociotechnical benefits and barriers of electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid in the Nordic region.




Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens is a doctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, working on energy and transport systems, data analytics and business development. His recent focus has been on Electric Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Grid implementation in Europe.




Johannes Kester is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, working on sociotechnical transformations in electricity and alternative transport systems, energy policy, and the role of security in these transformations.




Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, University of Sussex, UK.  He is also Director of the Center for Energy Technologies and Professor of Business and Social Sciences in the Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus University in Denmark. 







Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vehicle-to-Grid

  • Book Subtitle: A Sociotechnical Transition Beyond Electric Mobility

  • Authors: Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Series Title: Energy, Climate and the Environment

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04864-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04863-1Published: 16 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04864-8Published: 04 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2947-8561

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-857X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLII, 237

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Transportation, Renewable and Green Energy, Science and Technology Studies, Environment Studies, Environmental Geography

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eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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