Nuvve Plugs Into Utility Storage With New Mexico Deal

V2G pioneer Nuvve lands a 10MW battery storage deal in New Mexico, signaling its push into utility-scale grid services

28 Apr 2026

A company that built its name wrangling electric school buses into grid assets is now playing a much bigger game.

Nuvve, the San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid technology firm, has been selected by Kit Carson Electric Cooperative to deploy and operate two battery energy storage systems in New Mexico. Each unit is rated at 5MW and 20MWh with a four-hour discharge duration, bringing the total project to 10MW of utility-scale storage.

The partnership marks a meaningful shift. Nuvve made its reputation by aggregating EV batteries at commercial depots and turning them into real-time energy market assets. Now it is applying that same grid management logic to stationary storage, competing directly in utility procurement territory it previously left to others.

The technology bridging both worlds is Nuvve's AI-enabled Grid Integrated Vehicle platform, originally built to optimize depot-scale EV charging. Adapting it for utility-scale BESS is less a reinvention than a natural extension of the same core intelligence.

New Mexico is one piece of a larger strategic picture. Nuvve's Q3 2025 shareholder letter outlined plans to expand stationary batteries and microgrids across three global regions. The company has since contracted three grid-scale projects in Japan totaling 6MW and signed a collaboration agreement with Denmark-based E&B Renewables for developments across Nordic and Baltic markets ranging from 2MW to 100MW.

The pattern emerging across the V2G industry is hard to ignore. Firms that spent years mastering distributed energy management through EV fleets are increasingly competitive when utility-scale storage contracts go out to bid. For rural cooperatives in the American Southwest navigating rising renewable capacity and peak load pressure, that combination of grid intelligence and storage hardware is a credible offer.

Nuvve's evolution from EV aggregator to full-spectrum grid services provider is no longer a strategy slide in a boardroom deck. It is a signed contract in New Mexico.