Overview

• Since July, three Baltimore-area participants have exported energy from their Ford F-150 Lightning batteries on weekdays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Sunrun administers the program with BGE using the Ford–Sunrun Home Integration System to control energy flow from vehicles to homes and the grid.
• Participants are paid for the energy dispatched with total earnings capped at $1,000 for the season, which runs through the end of September.
• The companies describe the pilot as a way to bolster peak capacity, improve reliability, and provide home backup power using existing EV batteries.
• Maryland officials link the effort to stress on the eastern grid during recent heatwaves and to policy momentum under the 2024 DRIVE Act.