Economic and technical management of an aggregation agent for electric vehicles: a literature survey

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Bessa, RJ (Author) Other; Manuel Matos (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: European Transactions on Electrical Power

Vol. 22

Pages: 334-350

ISSN: 1430-144X

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 140 Citations

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 193 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-BF6

DOI: 10.1002/etep.565

Abstract (EN): The foreseeable increase in the use of electric vehicles (EV) led to the discussion on intermediate entities that could help manage a great number of EV. An aggregation agent for electric vehicles is a commercial middleman between a system operator (SO) and plug-in EV. From the SO perspective, the aggregator is seen as a large source of generation or load, which could provide ancillary services such as spinning and regulating reserve. Generally, these services will be provided in the day-ahead and intraday electricity markets. In addition, the aggregator also participates in the electricity market with supply and demand energy bids. This paper provides a comprehensive bibliographic survey on the aggregator role in the power system operation and electricity market. The scope of the survey covers 59 references divided in journal, conference proceedings, thesis, research papers, and technical reports published after 1994. These papers are put into several technical categories: electricity market and EV technical and economic issues; aggregation agent concept, role and business model; algorithms for EV management as a load/resource. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 17