Deploying e-mobility in the interact energy community to promote additional and valuable flexibility resources for secure and efficient grid operation
Albana Ilo, Helmut Bruckner, M. Olofsgard, M. Adamcova · IET conference proceedings. · 2022
The volatility of renewable energy sources and the increasing share of decentralised ones imply significant systemic requirements on the flexibility of Smart Grids. E-mobility can support their greater integration by offering flexibility in shaping the electricity demand curve, thereby reducing system costs and CO2 emissions. This paper deploys e-mobility in the LINK-Energy Community to promote additional and valuable flexibility resources for secure and efficient grid operation. Results show that energy communities are the most vital instrument to motivate customers to provide flexibility through e-mobility actively. They may efficiently coordinate their territory's electricity generation and charging schedules and promote carpooling between the EC members. Developing the harmonised fractal market structure with the power grid based on the holistic solution LINK creates all the conditions for the deployment of successful business models. The use case and the respective business model for the congestion alleviation - emergency driven demand response involving e-mobility are described in detail. This study shows that energy communities developed under the holistic perspective of LINK offer flexibility to the grid, even in the case of electromobility.