Wind Charged Battery Storage Facility

The proposed concept is a means to store wind energy in electric vehicle (EV) batteries after they have degraded past their usable life in consumer vehicles extending the life cycle of the batteries. With the recent excitement surrounding EVs, a surplus of post consumer batteries and reject batteries is expected a few years down the road. The batteries would be utilized to store electricity during off-peak demand periods and redistribute to the grid during on-peak demand periods for grid stabilization. Based on the Michigan Renewable Portfolio Standard of 10% electricity generation from renewable sources by 2015, Michigan will have an adequate amount of wind capacity to charge the EV battery wind storage facility and meet all of Michigan’s 2015 consumer EV requirements.