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...

Renewable energy sources introduce uncertainty regarding generated power in smart grids. For instance, power that is generated by wind turbines is time-varying and dependent on the weather. Electric vehicles will become increasingly important in the development of smart grids with a high penetration of renewables, because their flexibility makes it possible to charge their batteries when renewa...

We give an overview of data security issues for the smart electrical grid. In the recent past, the electrical power system has experienced unexpected, largescale, cascading failures initiated by relatively small failures (which may be deliberately caused in the future), and market manipulation (a well-known example of which is Enron’s manipulation of the California ISO marketplace). The hope is...

This paper presents a decentralized scheduling algorithm for electric vehicles charging. The charging control model follows the architecture of a Multi-Agent System (MAS). The MAS consists of an Electric Vehicle (EV)/Distributed Generation (DG) aggregator agent and ‘‘Responsive” or ‘‘Unresponsive” EV agents. The EV/DG aggregator agent is responsible to maximize the aggregator’s profit by design...