Conference paper
Implementation of an Electric Vehicle Test Bed Controlled by a Virtual Power Plant for Contributing to Regulating Power Reserves
With the increased focus on Electric Vehicles (EV) research and the potential benefits they bring for smart grid applications, there is a growing need for an evaluation platform connected to the electricity grid. This paper addresses the design of an EV test bed, which using real EV components and communication interfaces, is able to respond in real-time to smart grid control signals.
The EV test bed is equipped with a Lithium-ion battery pack, a Battery Management System (BMS), a charger and a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) unit for feeding power back to the grid. The designed solution serves as a multifunctional grid-interactive EV, which a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) or a generic EV coordinator could use for testing different control strategies, such as EV contribution to regulating power reserves.
The EV coordination is realized using the IEC 61850 modeling standard in the communication. Regulating power requests from the Danish TSO are used as a proof-of-concept, to demonstrate the EV test bed power response. Test results have proven the capability to respond to frequent power control requests and they reveal the potential EV ability for contributing to regulating power reserves.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 1-7 |
Proceedings: | 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting |
ISBN: | 1467327271 , 146732728X , 1467327298 , 9781467327275 , 9781467327282 and 9781467327299 |
ISSN: | 19449933 and 19449925 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345269 |
ORCIDs: | Pedersen, Anders Bro , Andersen, Peter Bach and Træholt, Chresten |
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Batteries Danish TSO EV coordination EV test bed Hybrid power systems IEC 61850 modeling standard IEC standards Power generation Relays Vehicles battery management system battery management systems communication interfaces control strategies electric vehicle test bed electricity grid evaluation platform generic EV coordinator lithium-ion battery pack multifunctional grid-interactive EV power requests power reserves power system control smart grid applications smart grid control signals smart power grids vehicle-to-grid unit virtual power plant