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How utilities can move forward using electric vehicles

BY BEAUDRY KOCK, Recargo

Until recently, North American electric utility reps might have understood electric vehicles in one dimension only: potential adverse impacts on the power grid. However, as knowledge and understanding have grown, such impacts are failing to materialize, while electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly seen as having significant potential to deliver important and valuable services to the power grid.

In fact, some systems have already...