Hi,
Apologises for not giving more information about me and the organisation I work for!
I will try to make up for it now:
I work for an organisation called GenGame.
GenGame was created as a research project sponsored by one of the distribution network operator (DNO), Northern Powergrid.
The original project's goal was to evaluate how to best engage domestic customers with demand-side-response (DSRs) using gamification. You can find more information about the project + the outcomes here
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Ace is now over, but thanks to the competencies developed in engaging domestic homeowners and gamification we are now working on three more research projects.
The one we are using the survey for is called: UK-South Korea Smart Energy Innovation Collaboration Competition and is sponsored by BEIS.
The goal of our project is to study the use of gamification (competitions, games and virtual rewards) and other methods to engage ULEV owners with V2G technology and incentivise behaviours such as the discharging/charging of their EV batteries to support the energy system.
So what we are testing at the moment is more the behavioural side of V2G, rather than the technology.
Btw, to the best of my knowledge, you are right when you say that currently, Chademo is the only one to support V2G.
Last but not least, your point about us being a commercial organisation.
Technically, since last year, we are a limited company. This is due to the fact that more than one supplier contacted us to ask for help in developing services and apps for their customers. So you are right, there is a part of GenGame which is about selling our services, nevertheless, most of GenGame team is focused on delivering the research projects, which are funded through grants.
Now a little bit about my role:
My role is product manager, so my job is to understand how to best meet user needs.
Gamification is a very powerful tool to engage users, nevertheless, it doesn't work all the time and with all type of users.
So another good way to engage users is to.....moment of suspense....develop a product that answers their needs.
And this is exactly what we are trying to do with this survey. Of course, this is only a first and basic survey that we are using to confirm some of the assumptions we made + see if we can discover something we missed so far.
Here we go, I hope I answered some of your questions. And feel free to ask more!
I can't see anything in your profile about what company you work for - I assume this is commercial? If som I'm sur ehe moderators would like to to append such info here.
Can you tell us anything more about yourself/this project? I know there are V2G trials going on already with Leafs, and that ChaDemo supports this function, but what's the position with CCS? Is there a new versio of that which will support V2G? If so, are you involved with the development of that? IMWTK.