EV Fleet as Virtual Battery Resource for Community Microgrid Energy Storage Planning

Dang, Qiyun; Wu, Di; Boulet, Benoît

doi:10.1109/icjece.2021.3093520

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“…It is, therefore, essential to have energy storage systems capable of promoting an optimal use of the resources. One of the most interesting and challenging solutions is to use Electric Vehicles (EV) as virtual storage systems [8][9][10][11]. Different optimization-based solutions to manage the charging profile of electric vehicles were proposed [12].…”

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Electric Vehicle Fleets as Balancing Instrument in Micro-Grids

Gruosso

Ruiz

2021

Energies

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Micro-grids have become the building block of modern energy systems, where distributed resources are the characterizing feature. The charging operation of electric vehicles can be exploited as a flexible load to achieve operational goals of the micro-grid. In the particular case of car-sharing fleets, the degrees of freedom in the charging procedures are reduced when compared to private users. In this work, we illustrate how a car sharing fleet can be incorporated as a flexible load in the micro-grid management system. A linear optimization problem is formulated, where the cost function makes a trade-off between the gain in flexibility in the micro-grid and the loss incurred by the car-sharing service for delaying the recharging procedure of the EV. The proposed approach is evaluated on a data set of charging events generated by a real car-sharing fleet showing that the EMS allows reducing the daily peak demand requested to the public grid and diminishes the operational costs.

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