There are currently ~85,000 EVs registered in NY, 21,000 registered in NYC - representing ~5.5 gWh and 1.3 gWh of storage capacity respectively (based on average battery of 65kwh). Leveraging even 1% of this capacity is megawatts of battery storage added to the grid. Unlike commercial and utility scale battery installations, these vehicles are already on the road, parked in driveways and garages, throughout the state. This distributed storage capacity represents a huge opportunity to accelerate decarbonization of the grid by complimenting the added capacity of solar and wind generation, helping to deal with peak generation and demand issues, advance non-wires solutions, and provide economic benefits to owners through existing demand response and time of use programs. This session will feature an overview of EV lifecycle carbon impacts, and discuss strategies for using them to advance grid decarbonization efforts. This will include a discussion on existing frameworks that could be leveraged to provide economic incentive for EV owner participation such as TOU billing, demand response billing programs, and non-wires solutions that utilities are actively pursuing. The session will then pivot to a review of and lessons learned from some of the first installations of Vehicle-to-Grid / Vehicle-to-home systems. This will include a review of regulatory barriers, permitting process, and technological/hardware shortcomings, and discussion on what the market needs to do to remove these barriers to pave way for broader adoption.