With the transition to electric vehicle technologies, large scale support infrastructure is being deployed. The vehicleto-grid (V2G) concept is an opportunity to take advantage from both infrastructure and electric vehicle drive. However, coordinating large number of agents in a reasonable speed and lack of homogenous distribution of the service provided by vehicle users to the grid have been l...

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is a promising approach to solve the problem of grid-level intermittent supply and demand mismatch, caused due renewable energy resources, because it uses existing resource electric vehicle (EV) batteries as storage medium. EV battery design together with an impetus on profitability for participating owners pivotal V2G success. To better understand what device parameters a...

Recent studies have shown that about 70% of the total oil extracted worldwide is consumed in the transportation sector [1]. With rising oil prices, USA and many other countries have set long-term plans to electrify their transportation system and manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce their oil consumption. It is foreseen that by 2013, approximately 700,000 grid-enabled electric vehicles...

In the next decades, Electric Vehicles (EVs) are expected to gain increasing popularity and huge penetration in the automotive market, thanks to their potentialities for close interaction with the Smart Grid ecosystem. Firstly, recharging EV’s batteries with energy produced by renewables will allow for a consistent reduction of pollution due to the carbon emissions of traditional gasoline combu...

Regulation service corrects for short-term changes in electricity use that might affect the stability of the power system. It helps match generation and load and adjusts generation output to maintain the desired frequency. Vehicle-togrid (V2G) provides the potential for the system operator to call on the electric vehicle (EV) as a distributed energy resource and offers financial benefits to veh...

Aiming to take full advantage of Electric Vehicles’ (EVs) batteries, this paper proposes a two-level hierarchical model predictive controller coupled with an innovative charging-discharging scheduler for EVs in Building Microgrids (BMGs). This provides complete framework the design control structure and analyses its performance regarding state charge at departure time, self-consumption rate, co...