Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination via a Time-Dependent Tariff
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Abstract
| The market share of electric vehicles (EV) will increase until 2020. In order to avoid peaks and distribution system instability, charging of EVs has to be coordinated. If charging decisions lie with the EV owners, system beneficial charging needs to be incentivized via a price signal. |
| The sustainability of EVs is only ensured if a high share of renewable energy is used to satisfy their load. Therefore the aim of our research is to develop a self-adjusting tariff for an aggregator (EV broker agent) that considers the infeed of a fixed intermittent renewable energy portfolio and learns from the charging decisions by EV owners (using empirical driving profiles and cost minimizing behavior). The objective is to minimize cost while ensuring a maximum supply of renewable energy to EV owners. |
| In Power TAC (Trading Agent Competition) this corresponds to a strategy for an uncertain price environment in which a broker with a renewable energy portfolio would deviate from the market price, guaranteeing minimum risk exposure. |
| Contact information: |
| Dr. Wolf Ketter |
