The Mobility House launches Cascade EV platform

The Mobility House North America has launched Cascade EV Aggregator, a vehicle-grid integration platform that enables utilities to coordinate electric vehicle charging and discharging across home chargers, commercial sites, and fleet depots. The platform aggregates EV batteries into a virtual power plant, providing grid services including demand response, dynamic rate optimisation, and constraint management.

Cascade supports both unidirectional smart charging for load shifting and bidirectional vehicle-to-grid systems that export power from EV batteries to the grid. The platform receives real-time signals from utilities or market programmes and coordinates with charge management systems across a service area to create individualised charging plans based on grid needs and vehicle mobility requirements.

The company said Cascade is already enabling vehicle-to-grid revenue for electric school bus fleets in California, Massachusetts, and New York. In a statement, Greg Hintler, Chief Executive at The Mobility House North America, said: “Electric vehicle batteries can play a substantial role in meeting the tremendous challenge of load growth on the electrical grid.”

Ernest Epley, Transportation Director at Fremont Unified School District, added: “The electric school buses in our fleet work hard every day to get students to school safely. And now as a part of The Mobility House’s Cascade Aggregator they can earn revenue for the district supporting the energy grid while they are parked at the depot.”

A recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance report forecast that EV battery capacity on US roads will reach 4 TW/h within ten years.

Source: The Mobility House