Integrating the electric grid and the commuter network through a “vehicle to grid” concept: a Complex Networks Theory approach

The new opportunities in the energy production, storage and distribution, raise new systemic challenges in the coordination and integration of each element in the infrastructural networks, considering also the unavoidable environmental constraints. In this ´multi-network´ scenario an exciting prospective is to develop the so-called vehicle-to-grid concept to introduce a positive coupling between the electric grid and the commuter network. The present research will use concepts and tools borrowed from the scientific field of Complex Networks, to understand the infrastructures´ interplay in the perspective of modeling, simulating and possibly controlling the systemic risk.