23 research outputs found
Evaluation of the utilization of electric vehicles for building energy management in hotels
Governments are working in new policies to slow down total energy consumption and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, promoting the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) in all countries. In order to facilitate this deployment and help to reduce the final costs of their batteries, additional utilization of EVs when those are parked has been proposed. EVs can be used to minimize the total electricity cost of buildings (named vehicle to building applications, V2B). In this paper an economic evaluation of EVs in the Building Energy Management System is shown. The optimal storage capacity and its equivalent number of EVs are determined. This value is then used for determining the optimal charging schedule to be applied to the batteries. From this schedule, the total expected profit is derived for the case of a real hotel in Spain
Macro environmental analysis of the electric vehicle battery second use market
The end-of-life (EOL) strategy of repurposing degraded electric vehicle (EV) batteries in second use applications holds the potential to reduce first-cost obstacles of EVs. With a prospective EV market uptake, increasing numbers of retired batteries will be available soon for battery second use (B2U). But this emerging secondary market remains unclear from a business model perspective. This paper evaluated the evolving B2U market from a macro environmental perspective to comprehend key opportunities and threats in the future
Optimal energy management for a residential microgrid including a vehicle-to-grid system
An optimization model is proposed to manage a
residential microgrid including a charging spot with a vehicle-togrid
system and renewable energy sources. In order to achieve a
realistic and convenient management, we take into account: (1)
the household load split into three different profiles depending
on the characteristics of the elements considered; (2) a realistic
approach to owner behavior by introducing the novel concept of
range anxiety; (3) the vehicle battery management considering
the mobility profile of the owner and (4) different domestic
renewable energy sources. We consider the microgrid operated
in grid-connected mode. The model is executed one-day-ahead
and generates a schedule for all components of the microgrid.
The results obtained show daily costs in the range of 2.82eto
3.33e; the proximity of these values to the actual energy costs
for Spanish households validate the modeling. The experimental
results of applying the designed managing strategies show daily
costs savings of nearly 10%.Postprint (author’s final draft
Will They Die Another Day? A Decision Support Perspective on Reusing Electric Vehicle Batteries
The diffusion of electric mobility suffers from an immature and expensive battery technology. Reusing electric vehicle batteries (EVBs) is a prospective opportunity for lowering the total costs of ownership of electric vehicles and using scarce natural resources more efficiently. However, to determine how to reuse a battery is a complex decision problem. In this study we set out to develop a design theory for a class of decision support systems (DSSs) that implement two main functions: First, a consideration set of feasible reuse scenarios is compiled based on an assess-ment of a battery’s structure and condition. Second, an offering is configured based on bun-dling batteries with customized services. We conclude with an outlook to our ongoing design science project that will, amongst others, explore to what extent systems instantiated from the design theory can remedy adverse effects caused by the ‘lemon market’ properties of the sec-ond-hand battery market
Competitive Online Peak-Demand Minimization Using Energy Storage
We study the problem of online peak-demand minimization under energy storage
constraints. It is motivated by an increasingly popular scenario where
large-load customers utilize energy storage to reduce the peak procurement from
the grid, which accounts for up to of their electric bills. The problem
is uniquely challenging due to (i) the coupling of online decisions across time
imposed by the inventory constraints and (ii) the noncumulative nature of the
peak procurement. In this paper, we develop an optimal online algorithm for the
problem, attaining the best possible competitive ratio (CR) among all
deterministic and randomized algorithms. We show that the optimal CR can be
computed in polynomial time, by solving a linear number of linear-fractional
problems. More importantly, we generalize our approach to develop an
\emph{anytime-optimal} online algorithm that achieves the best possible CR at
any epoch, given the inputs and online decisions so far. The algorithm retains
the optimal worst-case performance and achieves adaptive average-case
performance. Simulation results based on real-world traces show that, under
typical settings, our algorithms improve peak reduction by over as
compared to baseline alternatives
An economic analysis of used electric vehicle batteries integrated into commercial building microgrids
Current policies in the U.S. and other countries are trying to stimulate electric transportation deployment. Consequently, plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) adoption will presumably spread among vehicle users.With the increased diffusion of PEVs, lithium-ion batteries will also enter the market on a broad scale. However, their costs are still high and ways are needed to optimally deploy vehicle batteries in order to account for the higher initial outlay. This study analyzed the possibility of extending the lifecycle of PEV batteries to a secondary, stationary application. Battery usage can be optimized by installing used battery packs in buildings' microgrids. Employed as decentralized storage, batteries can be used for a microgrid's power supply and provide ancillary services (A/S). This scenario has been modeled with the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM), which identifies optimal equipment combinations to meet microgrid requirements at minimum cost, carbon footprint, or other criteria. Results show that used PEV batteries can create significant monetary value if subsequently used for stationary applications