Electric cars for grid services : A system perspective study of V2G in a future energy system of Sweden and a local perspective study of a commercial car fleet

Sammanfattning: One of the biggest challenges of today is to mitigate climate change and adjust our way of living in accordance with sustainability. To reduce the climate impact of the transport sector the electrification of the road transport sector is commonly seen as having a key role to play. The rate of increase in number of electric cars has increased dramatically the recent years. Substantial electrification of the transport sector highlights the need of efficient integration of EVs with the electricity grid in order to handle the extra electricity demand. A potentia lway of efficiently integrating EVs to the grid could be to apply the concept of vehicle to grid (V2G). V2G simply means that the battery within an EV is seen as a storage component of the electricity grid that can be charged and discharged. Hence, in this thesis, the potential of V2G is explored. This thesis comprises of two parts. The first part investigates this potential impact of V2G in a future Swedish energy system. The second part investigates the optimized economic value, a car sharing company can achieve using different charging modes as well as the potential for participation in Swedish ancillary service markets. For the first part, the dispatch model EnergyPLAN was used to simulate a future energy system in Sweden in 2045. For the second part, an optimization model was designed using Python Optimization Modeling Objects (PYOMO) to optimize the charging and V2G usage of a car sharing fleet. Additionally, the battery degradation cost due to V2G was calculated as well as the potential income from participation in the FCR-D up and FCR-D down market. For both parts of the thesis different scenarios were developed. Scenarios with different electrification rate of the transport sector, V2G compatibility as well as different electricity production mix were considered for energy systems model of Sweden. For participation of shared cars in ancillary services market, scenarios related to different charging modes, rated charging power and the impact of including or excluding tax on sold electricity were created. While analysing the impact of V2G on Swedish energy system in future, it was observed that V2G has a marginal system impact on an annual basis, regardless of transport electrification rate, V2G compatibility and energy mix. The analysis of optimization algorithm for participation of shared pool of 255 cars resulted in economic savings when implementing smart charging and V2G. Due to battery degradation, the savings from integrating V2G in the system were marginal compared to the smart charging annual cost. For both the FCR-D up market and FCR-D down market, the revenue for participation was higher than electricity arbitrage through V2G. Both parts of the methodology, highlight the need for in centives inorder to make V2G an attractive business model and for electric cars to be able to provide flexibility services in a future Swedish energy system.