EQUS was highlighted on CBC News this week as part of a federal announcement of more than $19.4 million for energy efficiency and innovation projects across Alberta.
The funding, announced by Corey Hogan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, supports 13 projects aimed at modernizing Canada’s industrial energy sector. Among them is the EQUS Charge Club, a project exploring how electric vehicles can strengthen the grid rather than strain it.
“Instead of seeing EVs as a burden on the grid, we’ve tried to look for the opportunity,” our spokesperson told CBC. “[We can] increase capacity and take away that strain on the grid for those contingency moments.”
Turning a challenge into an opportunity.
Demand for electricity is rising, and it will keep rising. Rather than meeting that demand by building ever more wires and infrastructure, EQUS is focused on getting the most out of the assets we already have.
Through Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology, EVs can detect when the grid is under stress and immediately feed power back in, easing the load on affected lines. Our research shows this approach can increase grid capacity by 20% to 50% without building new transmission, while also boosting intertie capacity between Alberta and B.C.
For our members across rural Alberta, the payoff is electricity that stays reliable, resilient, and affordable.
EQUS is proud to be advancing this work alongside our partners: InCharge, the University of New Brunswick, NAIT, SAIT, Hero Engineering, and Volta Research.
