posted on 2020-01-08, 14:38authored byDani StricklandDani Strickland, T Embley, J Osborne, J Yang, Z Qiao, A Malhotra, A Corliss, K Ashworth
The increasing uptake of electric vehicles, and the established practice of long-term parking at stations and airports, offers an opportunity to develop a flexible approach to help with the energy storage dilemma. This paper investigates the feasibility of using a number of EV batteries as an energy storage and grid balancing solution within the UK Central Hub area. Here, the capital cost of the vehicle is a sunk cost to the EV owner. The potential income generated, or discount on long-term parking, is an additional benefit of ownership. This paper considers the income available to a small and large size car park from the different market mechanisms to offer grid support in the UK and contrasts this with the complexity and costs of the EV charging infrastructure required within these types of scheme.
Funding
TSB under project Net-form and partners including Solihull Council and Cenex.
History
School
Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
The Journal of Engineering
Volume
2019
Issue
17
Pages
3967 - 3971
Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)