Optimal Scheduling With Vehicle-to-Grid Regulation Service
- 8 October 2014
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Vol. 1 (6), 556-569
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2014.2361911
Abstract
In a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system, aggregators coordinate the charging/discharging schedules of electric vehicle (EV) batteries so that they can collectively form a massive energy storage system to provide ancillary services, such as frequency regulation, to the power grid. In this paper, the optimal charging/discharging scheduling between one aggregator and its coordinated EVs for the provision of the regulation service is studied. We propose a scheduling method that assures adequate charging of EVs and the quality of the regulation service at the same time. First, the scheduling problem is formulated as a convex optimization problem relying on accurate forecasts of the regulation demand. By exploiting the zero-energy nature of the regulation service, the forecast-based scheduling in turn degenerates to an online scheduling problem to cope with the high uncertainty in the forecasts. Decentralized algorithms based on the gradient projection method are designed to solve the optimization problems, enabling each EV to solve its local problem and to obtain its own schedule. Our simulation study of 1000 EVs shows that the proposed online scheduling can perform nearly as well as the forecast-based scheduling, and it is able to smooth out the real-time power fluctuations of the grid, demonstrating the potential of V2G in providing the regulation service.Keywords
Funding Information
- Collaborative Research Fund of the Research Grants Council
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (HKU10/CRF/10)
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