Vehicular energy network (VEN) is a vehicular network which can transport energy over a large geographical area by means of electric vehicles (EVs). In the near future, an abundance of EVs, plentiful generation of the renewables, and mature wireless energy transfer and vehicular communication technologies will expedite the realization of VEN. To transmit energy from a source to a destination, we need to establish energy paths, which are composed of segments of vehicular routes, while satisfying various design objectives. In this paper, we develop a method to construct all energy paths for a particular energy source-destination pair, followed by some analytical results of the method. We describe how to utilize the energy paths to develop optimization models for different design goals and propose two solutions. We also develop a heuristic for the power loss minimization problem. We compare the performance of the three solution methods with artificial and real-world traffic networks and provide a comprehensive comparison in terms of solution quality, computation time, solvable problem size, and applicability. This paper lays the foundations of VEN routing.
Mobile electrical grid (or called EV energy network) proposed in @cite_7 has a similar but different design as VEN. It does make use of EVs for energy transmission and distribution but it requires the involved EVs to actively participate in the energy transmission process by stopping at particular locations for charging and discharging. However, with dynamic (dis)charging technologies, VEN can function transparently to the EV drivers. In @cite_0 , we provided an extensive analytical framework for further performance study of VEN.
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The smart grid spawns many innovative ideas, but many of them cannot be easily integrated into the existing power system due to power system constraints, such as the lack of capacity to transport renewable energy in remote areas to the urban centers. An energy delivery system can be built upon the traffic network and electric vehicles (EVs) utilized as energy carriers to transport energy over a large geographical region. A generalized architecture called the vehicular energy network (VEN) is constructed and a mathematically tractable framework is developed. Dynamic wireless (dis)charging allows electric energy, as an energy packet, to be added and subtracted from EV batteries seamlessly. With proper routing, energy can be transported from the sources to destinations through EVs along appropriate vehicular routes. This paper gives a preliminary study of VEN. Models are developed to study its operational and economic feasibilities with real traffic data in U. K. This paper shows that a substantial amount of renewable energy can be transported from some remote wind farms to London under some reasonable settings and VEN is likely to be profitable in the near future. VEN can complement the power network and enhance its power delivery capability. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology utilizes the stored energy in electric vehicle batteries to contribute electricity back to the grid. The energy in batteries can move with electric vehicles (EVs). Combining V2G and the mobility of vehicles, EVs can provide a natural energy transmission architecture called mobile electrical grid. The main idea of this paper focuses on multiple energy transmission route in mobile electrical grid from solar energy sources to places as capacity of every energy route is limited. The features of energy route in mobile electrical grid are analyzed and a minimum cost flow algorithm is presented. Simulations using real-world transporting data in Manhattan. Simulations show that this method is efficient. Vehicle-to-grid provides a viable approach that feeds the battery energy stored in electric vehicles (EVs) back to the power grid. Meanwhile, since EVs are mobile, the energy in EVs can be easily transported from one place to another. Based on these two observations, we introduce a novel concept called EV energy network for energy transmission and distribution using EVs. We present a concrete example to illustrate the usage of an EV energy network, and then study the optimization problem of how to deploy energy routers in an EV energy network. We prove that the problem is NP-hard and develop a greedy heuristic solution. Simulations using real-world data shows that our method is efficient. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) control has the potential to provide frequency regulation service for power system operation from electric vehicles (EVs). In this paper, a decentralized V2G control (DVC) method is proposed for EVs to participate in primary frequency control considering charging demands from EV customers. When an EV customer wants to maintain the residual state of charge (SOC) of the EV battery, a V2G control strategy, called battery SOC holder (BSH), is performed to maintain the battery energy around the residual SOC along with adaptive frequency droop control. If the residual battery energy is not enough for next trip, the customer needs to charge the EV to higher SOC level. Then, a smart charging method, called charging with frequency regulation (CFR), is developed to achieve scheduled charging and provide frequency regulation at the same time. Simulations on a two-area interconnected power system with wind power integration have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method.