Paper Info
Title
Deadline differentiated pricing in practice: marketing EV charging in car parks
Abstract
Electric vehicle charging is considered as a prime case of load flexibility in future smart grids. We examine a scenario where electric vehicles are charged in a car park with local photovoltaic (PV) generation. In this setting, temporal charging flexibility can be leveraged to increase utilization of local generation. To incentivize flexible loads we apply a deadline differentiated pricing scheme. Prices are set by the car park operator in a profit-maximizing manner in settings with varying PV capacity and costs of conventional generation. This allows us to assess the value of flexibility passed on to customers in form of discounts. Furthermore, we determine the minimum flexibility level qualifying for this discount. By and large, absolute price levels and flexibility discounts are mainly driven by the cost of conventional generation. On the other hand, the minimum flexibility requirements are affected by both the costs of conventional generation as well as the local PV capacity: higher costs of conventional generation as well as larger PV capacities will decrease this threshold.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s00450-014-0293-5
Computer Science - Research and Development
Keywords
Field
DocType
Deadline differentiated pricing, Deferable loads, Electric vehicles, Car park
Prime (order theory),Automotive engineering,Leverage (finance),Smart grid,Electric vehicle,Price level,Computer science,Simulation,Real-time computing,Operator (computer programming),Photovoltaic system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
1-2
1865-2034
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
florian salah130.77
Christoph M. Flath29415.91