V2G effects on frequency regulation and under-frequency load shedding in a quasi-islanded grid

Author

Dan, Andras ; Farkas, Csaba ; Prikler, Laszlo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Power Eng., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2013

fDate

16-20 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

An interesting concept of the usage of the capabilities of electric vehicles is the aggregation of a large number of electric cars and using the aggregated power for regulation purposes (mainly frequency regulation). This concept is called V2G (short for "vehicle-to-grid"). The power electronics used in battery chargers make bidirectional power flow possible, so EVs can be considered as storage capacity for the grid. Frequency regulation capability of aggregated electric vehicle power is investigated in this paper by means of computer simulation. Effect of under-frequency load shedding is also taken into consideration.

Keywords

electric vehicles; frequency control; load shedding; V2G effects; bidirectional power flow; computer simulation; electric vehicle power; electric vehicles; frequency regulation; quasi-islanded grid; storage capacity; under-frequency load shedding; vehicle-to-grid; Batteries; Frequency control; Frequency measurement; Generators; Load modeling; Reactive power; Turbines; DIgSILENT; EV; frequency regulation; islanded grid; vehicle-to-grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PowerTech (POWERTECH), 2013 IEEE Grenoble

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2013.6652220

Filename

6652220