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An Innovative Smart Charging Framework for Efficient Integration of Plug-In Electric Vehicles into the Grid

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The massive, uncontrolled charging of numerous electric vehicles from the grid will create problems in the proper and reliable operation of the electricity networks. A very promising solution is the application of controlled and coordinated charging of electric vehicles, also known as smart charging. During smart charging, the charging time and rate of an electric vehicle are controlled. The development of an integrated smart charging solution meets significant technical challenges and requires the cooperation of numerous stakeholders. The electric vehicle aggregator is a new entity that can take over the central management of the smart charging of numerous electric vehicles and interact with the various stakeholders in an optimal way. This paper presents a prototype integrated tool for the management of smart charging by an electric vehicle aggregator in order to provide cost-effective charging to electric vehicle users while providing ancillary services to the system and network operators.

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    An entity the provides services to the Balancing Market may offer two product types, (a) balancing capacity and (b) balancing energy. The balancing capacity is procured in previous markets and upward activation or downward activation of balancing energy offers are submitted in the real time balancing market. Balancing capacity reservation provides the TSO with the confidence that it can handle any abnormal situation in real-time operation by activating the reserved capacity, if needed, i.e., instructing the entities to provide upward/downward balancing energy based on their respective balancing energy offers submitted at the real-time dispatch process (Vagropoulos et al. 2022).

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The research project was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I) under the “2nd Call for H.R.F.I Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (Project Number: 649).

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  1. Department of Energy Systems, University of Thessaly, Gaiopolis Campus, Ring Road of Larissa-Trikala, 41500, Larissa, Greece

    Stylianos I. Vagropoulos, Stratos D. Keranidis & Konstantinos D. Afentoulis

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Zafeirios N. Bampos

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Vagropoulos, S.I., Keranidis, S.D., Bampos, Z.N., Afentoulis, K.D. (2023). An Innovative Smart Charging Framework for Efficient Integration of Plug-In Electric Vehicles into the Grid. In: Nathanail, E.G., Gavanas, N., Adamos, G. (eds) Smart Energy for Smart Transport. CSUM 2022. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23721-8_16

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