Abstract
The increasing market share of electric vehicles (EVs) makes large-scale charging stations indispensable infrastructure for integrating EVs into the future smart grid. Thus their operation modes have drawn great attention from researchers. One promising mode called park-and-charge was recently proposed. It allows people to park their EVs at a parking lot, where EVs can get charged during the parking time. This mode has been experimented and demonstrated in small scale. However, the missing of an efficient market mechanism is an important gap preventing its large-scale deployment. Existing pricing policies, e.g., pay-by-use and flatrate pricing, would jeopardize the efficiency of electricity allocation and the corresponding social welfare in the parkand-charge mode, and thus are inapplicable. To find an efficient mechanism, this paper explores the feasibility and benefits of utilizing auction mechanism in the EV park-andcharge mode. The auction allows EV users to submit and update bids on their charging demand to the charging station, which makes corresponding electricity allocation and pricing decisions. To this end, we propose Auc2Charge, an online auction framework. Auc2Charge is truthful and individual rational. Running in polynomial time, it provides an efficient electricity allocation for EV users with a close-form approximation ratio on system social welfare. Through both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, we demonstrate the efficacy of Auc2Charge in terms of social welfare and user satisfaction.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | e-Energy 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM 6th International Conference on Future Energy Systems |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 151-160 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450336093 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 14 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 6th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, e-Energy 2015 - Bangalore, India Duration: Jul 14 2015 → Jul 17 2015 |
Other
Other | 6th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, e-Energy 2015 |
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Country | India |
City | Bangalore |
Period | 7/14/15 → 7/17/15 |
Keywords
- Auction
- Electric vehicles
- Mechanism design
- Smart grid
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Fuel Technology