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Arrowtown community centre installs V2G charger to back up civil defence hub with EV batteries
Arrowtown's community centre now has a vehicle-to-grid charger that lets EV batteries power a designated civil defence emergency hub if the lines go down. The installation is run by the Queenstown Electrification Accelerator (QEA), whose co-lead Josh Ellison told Newsroom that Queenstown relies on a single power line and that there is a 75% chance of a magnitude 8 Alpine Fault earthquake in the next 50 years. It sits within a wider QEA trial, and the NZ Herald reports the pilot started with roughly half a dozen homes, with around 30 more planned.
Why it matters
Bidirectional charging is being positioned as resilience infrastructure rather than a sustainability add-on, which could shape how public and community sites specify hardware. For CPOs and installers, it points to a possible demand for V2G-capable chargers at emergency and critical-service sites, though the pilot scale remains modest.