Australia
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia created an algorithm that can theoretically turn electric boats into small renewable power plants. They tested the algorithm with a microgrid in their lab, using four 6-volt gel batteries connected in a 24-V series as a stand-in for a boat.
When the boat is docked, it could act as a small power plant, providing electricity to homes on the island.
With the algorithm in place, boat owners could decide when to sell electricity—and how much they wanted to sell. Electric cars don’t generally have their own PV system. So instead of adding power to the grid-like, a boat could, electric cars draw from it.
The proposed technology works pretty similarly to the microgrids that are gradually rolling out in Indonesia those microgrids also contain PVs to collect energy and lithium-ion batteries to store it. But there’s one key difference: portability.
Innovation theme: An algorithm for E-boat V2G to island microgrid, Electric boats into small renewable power plants, lithium-ion battery secondary storage.
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