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Feasibility study: investigation of car park-based V2G services in the UK central hub

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posted on 2020-01-08, 14:38 authored by Dani 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.

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TSB under project Net-form and partners including Solihull Council and Cenex.

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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/)

Acceptance date

2018-07-30

Publication date

2019-01-22

Copyright date

2019

eISSN

2051-3305

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Dani Strickland. Deposit date: 6 January 2020

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