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Can electric vehicle charging be carbon neutral? Uniting smart charging and renewables

Growing numbers of plug-in electric vehicles in Europe will have an increasing impact on the electricity system. Using the agent-based simulation model PowerACE for ten electricity markets in Central Europe, we analyze how different charging strategies impact price levels and production- as well as consumption-based carbon emissions in France and Germany. The applied smart charging strategies consider spot market prices and/or real-time production from renewable energy sources. While total European carbon emissions do not change significantly in response to the charging strategy due to the comparatively small energy consumption of the electric vehicle fleet, our results show that all smart charging strategies reduce price levels on the spot market and lower total curtailment of renewables. Here, charging processes optimized according to hourly prices have the strongest effect. Furthermore, smart charging strategies reduce electricity purchasing costs for aggregators by about 10% compared to uncontrolled charging. In addition, the strategies allow aggregators to communicate near-zero allocated emissions for charging vehicles. An aggregator's charging strategy expanding classic electricity cost minimization by limiting total national PEV demand to 10% of available electricity production from renewable energy sources leads to the most favorable results in both metrics, purchasing costs and allocated emissions. Finally, aggregators and plug-in electric vehicle owners would benefit from the availability of national, real-time Guarantees of Origin and the respective scarcity signals for renewable production.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper Series in Production and Energy ; No. 69

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Energy system analysis
Electric mobility
Smart charging
Electricity markets
CO2 emissions
Renewable energies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Will, Christian
Zimmermann, Florian
Ensslen, Axel
Fraunholz, Christoph
Jochem, Patrick
Keles, Dogan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Industrial Production (IIP)
(wo)
Karlsruhe
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.5445/IR/1000158369
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Will, Christian
  • Zimmermann, Florian
  • Ensslen, Axel
  • Fraunholz, Christoph
  • Jochem, Patrick
  • Keles, Dogan
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Industrial Production (IIP)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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