Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City

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Autor(a) principal: Canizes, Bruno
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Soares, João, Costa, Ângelo, Pinto, Tiago, Lezama, Fernando, Novais, Paulo, Vale, Zita
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/14932
Resumo: The increase of variable renewable energy generation has brought several new challenges to power and energy systems. Solutions based on storage systems and consumption flexibility are being proposed to balance the variability from generation sources that depend directly on environmental conditions. The widespread use of electric vehicles is seen as a resource that includes both distributed storage capabilities and the potential for consumption (charging) flexibility. However, to take advantage of the full potential of electric vehicles’ flexibility, it is essential that proper incentives are provided and that the management is performed with the variation of generation. This paper presents a research study on the impact of the variation of the electricity prices on the behavior of electric vehicle’s users. This study compared the benefits when using the variable and fixed charging prices. The variable prices are determined based on the calculation of distribution locational marginal pricing, which are recalculated and adapted continuously accordingly to the users’ trips and behavior. A travel simulation tool was developed for simulating real environments taking into account the behavior of real users. Results show that variable-rate of electricity prices demonstrate to be more advantageous to the users, enabling them to reduce charging costs while contributing to the required flexibility for the system.
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spelling Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart CityElectric charging behaviourElectric mobilityEnergy pricesEVsTravel simulatorThe increase of variable renewable energy generation has brought several new challenges to power and energy systems. Solutions based on storage systems and consumption flexibility are being proposed to balance the variability from generation sources that depend directly on environmental conditions. The widespread use of electric vehicles is seen as a resource that includes both distributed storage capabilities and the potential for consumption (charging) flexibility. However, to take advantage of the full potential of electric vehicles’ flexibility, it is essential that proper incentives are provided and that the management is performed with the variation of generation. This paper presents a research study on the impact of the variation of the electricity prices on the behavior of electric vehicle’s users. This study compared the benefits when using the variable and fixed charging prices. The variable prices are determined based on the calculation of distribution locational marginal pricing, which are recalculated and adapted continuously accordingly to the users’ trips and behavior. A travel simulation tool was developed for simulating real environments taking into account the behavior of real users. Results show that variable-rate of electricity prices demonstrate to be more advantageous to the users, enabling them to reduce charging costs while contributing to the required flexibility for the system.This work has received funding from FEDER Funds through COMPETE program, from National Funds through FCT projects UID/EEA/00760/2019 and UID/CEC/00319/2019 and PTDC/EEI-EEE/28983/2017-CENERGETIC. Bruno Canizes is supported by FCT Funds through SFRH/BD/110678/2015 PhD scholarship. Angelo Costa is supported by the FCT Post-Doc Grant SFRH/BPD/102696/2014.MDPIRepositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do PortoCanizes, BrunoSoares, JoãoCosta, ÂngeloPinto, TiagoLezama, FernandoNovais, PauloVale, Zita2019-11-22T14:36:57Z20192019-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/14932eng10.3390/en12081470info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-13T12:58:36Zoai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/14932Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:34:44.110908Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
spellingShingle Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
Canizes, Bruno
Electric charging behaviour
Electric mobility
Energy prices
EVs
Travel simulator
title_short Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
title_full Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
title_fullStr Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
title_full_unstemmed Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
title_sort Electric Vehicles’ User Charging Behaviour Simulator for a Smart City
author Canizes, Bruno
author_facet Canizes, Bruno
Soares, João
Costa, Ângelo
Pinto, Tiago
Lezama, Fernando
Novais, Paulo
Vale, Zita
author_role author
author2 Soares, João
Costa, Ângelo
Pinto, Tiago
Lezama, Fernando
Novais, Paulo
Vale, Zita
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Canizes, Bruno
Soares, João
Costa, Ângelo
Pinto, Tiago
Lezama, Fernando
Novais, Paulo
Vale, Zita
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Electric charging behaviour
Electric mobility
Energy prices
EVs
Travel simulator
topic Electric charging behaviour
Electric mobility
Energy prices
EVs
Travel simulator
description The increase of variable renewable energy generation has brought several new challenges to power and energy systems. Solutions based on storage systems and consumption flexibility are being proposed to balance the variability from generation sources that depend directly on environmental conditions. The widespread use of electric vehicles is seen as a resource that includes both distributed storage capabilities and the potential for consumption (charging) flexibility. However, to take advantage of the full potential of electric vehicles’ flexibility, it is essential that proper incentives are provided and that the management is performed with the variation of generation. This paper presents a research study on the impact of the variation of the electricity prices on the behavior of electric vehicle’s users. This study compared the benefits when using the variable and fixed charging prices. The variable prices are determined based on the calculation of distribution locational marginal pricing, which are recalculated and adapted continuously accordingly to the users’ trips and behavior. A travel simulation tool was developed for simulating real environments taking into account the behavior of real users. Results show that variable-rate of electricity prices demonstrate to be more advantageous to the users, enabling them to reduce charging costs while contributing to the required flexibility for the system.
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