Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 308, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.118351
Keywords
Electric vehicles (EVs); Vehicle-to-grid (V2G); Optimized profile combination; Vehicle fleet; Dual use; Grid services; Frequency containment reserve (FCR); Intraday market; Day-ahead market
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- German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy within the open_BEA project [03ET4072]
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the SimBAS project as part of the Competence Cluster Battery Utilisation Concepts (BattNutzung) [03XP0338A]
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The market growth of electric mobility has increased the attention on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) issues in research and industry. Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to support renewable energy by acting as storage units during idle times. Aggregators can smartly compose their pools of EVs and increase their revenues by selecting vehicles that contribute to the pool's performance, rather than having a random composition.
The market ramp-up of electromobility is shifting vehicle-to-grid (V2G) issues into the focus of research and industry. Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to support the trend towards renewable energies in their role as storage units during idle times. To participate in balancing power and energy markets, EVs are pooled via aggregators. Instead of a random composition, aggregators can smartly compose their pools and add only those vehicles that actually contribute to the pool's performance, gaining advantages over competitors. The optimi-zation methods presented in this paper form optimized pool combinations based on the power and energy capability profiles of commercial EVs. Genetic algorithms are used to determine the revenues of the possible pools per participating EV. The use cases analyzed are the provision of balancing power on the frequency containment reserve (FCR) market of Central Europe and energy arbitrage trading on the European power ex-change intraday continuous and day-ahead auction spot markets. The results show that through smart pool composition, an aggregator can increase revenue per vehicle by up to seven-fold across the markets compared to randomly assembled pools. In the Central European market, for example, the potential V2G revenues on the FCR market (380 euro ) exceeded those of arbitrage trading (28 euro -203 euro ) in 2020. In a simulation, we show the increased degradation of the vehicle battery in V2G operation compared to sole use for mobility with a smart charging strategy. However, the additional revenue can make V2G financially worthwhile, depending on costs for measuring equipment, bidirectional charging stations, and aggregator costs.
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