Abstract
The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is seen as an important step towards environmental sustainability. Perhaps not surprising, many governments all around the world are providing incentives for consumers to buy electric vehicles (EVs). A positive response from consumers means that the demand for the charging infrastructure increases as well. We investigate how an existing traditional parking lot, upgraded with chargers, can suit the present demand for charging stations. In particular, a resulting EV-enabled parking lot is an electricity trading agent (i.e., broker) which acts as an energy retailer and as a player on a target electricity market. In this paper, we use agent-based simulation to present the EV-enabled parking lot ecosystem in order to model the underlying dynamics and uncertainties regarding parking lots with electricity trading agent functionalities. We instantiate our agent-based simulations using real-life data in order to perform the what-if analysis. Several key performance indicators (KPIs), including parking utilization, charging utilization and electricity utilization, are proposed. We also illustrate how those KPIs can be used to choose the effective investment strategy with respect to the number and speed of chargers.
This paper extends the paper “Extending Parking Lots with Electricity Trading Agent Functionalities” presented at the “Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis (AMEC/TADA 2015) @ AAMAS 2015”.
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Available at: www.nordpoolspot.com/historical-market-data.
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Our simulation is implemented using R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It takes around three minutes to simulate one year scenario on a system with 4-core CPU and 8 GB RAM. Please note R does not utilize multi-threading and therefore a computer with less CPU cores will produce similar running times.
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The authors acknowledge the support of the research project “Managing Trust and Coordinating Interactions in Smart Networks of People, Machines and Organizations”, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project UIP-11-2013-8813 and COST Action IC1404 on Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems, funded by European Union.
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Babic, J., Carvalho, A., Ketter, W., Podobnik, V. (2017). Electricity Trading Agent for EV-enabled Parking Lots. In: Ceppi, S., David, E., Hajaj, C., Robu, V., Vetsikas, I. (eds) Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets. AMEC/TADA AMEC/TADA 2015 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54229-4_3
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