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Electric Vehicles: An Agent-Based Approach to Sustainability

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2015)

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Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are difficult to balance for the grid because they are weather dependent. We study how the storage of electric vehicles can balance a grid with an increasing intermittent renewable energy content in the short term and contribute to a more efficient and sustainable smart grid. In the Power Trading Agent Competition, a mulitagent platform, we represent fleets of electric vehicles to make a tradeoff between the conflicting interests of storing intermittent energy in the electric vehicles and driving them. The richness of this platform allows us to draw conclusions for the future of a sustainable grid with electric vehicles.

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  1. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062, Rotterdam, PA, The Netherlands

    Micha Kahlen & Wolfgang Ketter

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  1. Micha Kahlen
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Correspondence to Micha Kahlen .

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  1. Technische Universität Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  2. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Wolf Ketter

  3. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Gal Kaminka

  4. Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

    Gerd Wagner

  5. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Nils Bulling

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Kahlen, M., Ketter, W. (2015). Electric Vehicles: An Agent-Based Approach to Sustainability. In: Müller, J., Ketter, W., Kaminka, G., Wagner, G., Bulling, N. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies . MATES 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9433. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27343-3_15

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