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Madison Gas and Electric Plans Electric Vehicle Charging Network
27 June 2009
As part of several technology demonstration projects under study, Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) has purchased six Coulomb Technologies electric vehicle charging stations from Carbon Day Automotive, Chicago, Ill. Electric cars and trucks charged at the stations will have their emissions offset through renewable energy. The project is the first of its kind in the United States.
MGE plans to install the first charging unit this summer and have the network up and operating by early next year.
Last year, MGE purchased one of the state’s first plug-in hybrid cars. This summer, the company will install vehicle-to-grid technology in a new Ford Escape plug-in hybrid, making it Smart Grid ready. This technology allows the vehicle to recharge at low power demand times and can also be discharged to supply the grid with power during peak power demand hours.
This demonstration project will show us how use of plug-in vehicles could eventually affect operations of the electric grid and power supply planning.
—Lynn Hobbie, MGE senior vice president
MGE generates and distributes electricity to 137,000 customers in Dane County, Wis., and purchases and distributes natural gas to 141,000 customers in seven south-central and western Wisconsin counties. MGE’s parent company is MGE Energy.
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I am reading a book on plug in and electric cars where a group was travelling from northern to southern California and stopped at EV stops to recharge at night.
This seemed like such a practical thing to do that I wondered why more to not do this. The RAV4-EV they were driving had a range of 200 miles and that made for a good day's travels.
Posted by: SJC | June 29, 2009 at 06:38 PM
200 miles/day is good? If I am in serious ground-covering mode, 600 miles is low for me; I typically go over 700 miles per day if I am trying to get somewhere, and have managed over 1000 miles.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | June 30, 2009 at 12:38 PM