Interoperability Key to Determining How Fast V2G Accelerates
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology is no longer just a future-state vision. It is becoming a practical and increasingly important part of the grid modernization conversation.
As electrification accelerates, electric vehicles have the potential to become more than transportation assets. They can also become flexible, distributed energy resources that help support grid reliability, resilience, and efficiency. But realizing that potential will require more than smart chargers, capable vehicles, and strong market demand.
It will require trusted, end-to-end interoperability.
That was one of the central themes at the recent V2G Business, Policy & Technology Forum, hosted by Southern California Edison. The event brought together utilities, EV OEMs, aggregators, EV charging providers, national labs, standards associations, certification organizations, policymakers, regulators, and technology leaders to address a critical question:
How do we make vehicle-to-grid a reality at scale?
Keysight Technologies participated in a panel on end-to-end V2G interoperability and helped facilitate industry conversations around the creation of a collaborative, end-to-end interoperability test bed for V2G energy services.
That matters because V2G is not simply a charger problem or a vehicle problem. It is a cross-domain ecosystem challenge spanning the utility grid, distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) platforms, aggregators, EVSE, vehicles, communications, standards, policy, certification, and customer participation.
For V2G to scale, these domains cannot be validated in isolation. Vehicles must communicate reliably with charging infrastructure. Charging infrastructure must coordinate with aggregators and utility systems. DERMS platforms must be able to interpret, dispatch, and manage distributed energy behavior. Communications must be secure and resilient. Standards must be testable. Certification pathways must be practical. And customers must be able to participate with confidence.
In other words, the next phase of V2G is not just about proving that individual components work. It is about proving that the ecosystem works end-to-end.
That is why the concept of a collaborative interoperability test bed is so important. A shared, end-to-end V2G test environment could help industry stakeholders identify gaps, validate workflows, reduce integration risk, and build confidence before large-scale deployment. It would also support a more coordinated path from standards development to certification, field deployment, and operational grid services.
As electrification accelerates and grid flexibility becomes increasingly valuable, Keysight is honored to help bring clarity, collaboration, and technical expertise to one of the energy ecosystem’s most important opportunities. Keysight contributes deep expertise in test, validation, interoperability, battery performance, communications, and grid modernization — capabilities that are increasingly critical as the grid becomes more distributed, dynamic, and software-defined.
This is where grid-enhancing technology becomes essential.
The modern grid is no longer a one-way system built primarily around centralized generation and predictable load patterns. It is evolving into a more complex ecosystem shaped by EVs, distributed energy resources, battery storage, renewables, microgrids, advanced software platforms, and new market participation models. In that environment, confidence must be engineered before deployment.
Modeling remains important, but it is not enough on its own. Utilities, OEMs, aggregators, charging providers, DERMS vendors, regulators, and standards bodies need trusted ways to validate how technologies behave under real-world conditions and across system boundaries.
That is the role Keysight is positioned to help play: enabling the industry to test, validate, and prove readiness across the full lifecycle of grid modernization.
V2G’s potential is significant. It can help unlock new sources of grid flexibility, improve utilization of distributed energy resources, support renewable integration, strengthen resilience, and create new value streams for EV owners and energy market participants.
But the next step is proving the ecosystem can work end to end.
Keysight will be there as a trusted provider to help facilitate and move this initiative forward — bringing the technical rigor, validation expertise, and collaborative mindset needed to help transform V2G from a promising concept into a scalable grid resource.
Keysight can help you with your innovations for this exciting grid transformation, from inverter-based resources and distributed energy resources, to tools enabling systems integration and deployment, as well as operations.
Contact us for expert advice on grid modernization.