Optimal charge scheduling of electric vehicle fleets through dynamic pricing and intraday market trading

We consider an electricity supplier for a large commercial electric vehicle (EV) fleet. The supplier uses a dynamic pricing scheme for buying and selling energy from and to the fleet, enabling the supplier to trade any deviations from the agreed day-ahead (DA) position in the intraday auction (IDA) market, while taking into account the behavior … Read more

Reliable Frequency Regulation through Vehicle-to-Grid: Encoding Legislation with Robust Constraints

Problem definition: Vehicle-to-grid increases the low utilization rate of privately owned electric vehicles by making their batteries available to electricity grids. We formulate a robust optimization problem that maximizes a vehicle owner’s expected profit from selling primary frequency regulation to the grid and guarantees that market commitments are met at all times for all frequency … Read more