A new pilot program in Massachusetts will pay electric vehicle owners for supporting the grid.
They may be able to earn hundreds of dollars depending on the time and the grid's energy needs.
Several utility and technology companies have teamed up to make this happen.
Dozens of electric vehicle owners in Massachusetts will start earning money by sharing the energy stored in their EV batteries with the local electricity grid in times of need, Heatmap News reported on Thursday.
For a long time, the idea of EV drivers earning money by sharing battery power sounded cool in theory but hadn’t necessarily materialized. But a growing number of pilot programs across the U.S. have now brought this concept to the real world, helping utilities keep up with surging electricity demand from things like AI data centers and increasingly common extreme heat waves due to climate change.
