Title : 
Vehicle fleet as a distributed energy storage system for the power grid
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Missouri Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Rolla, MO, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Experts in the field have agreed that the addition of an energy storage unit to vehicles and renewable energy sources benefits their performance, efficiency, cost, and reliability. In this paper, the notion of integration of vehicular with renewable systems so that they can both share the onboard battery unit of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is discussed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
battery powered vehicles; distributed power generation; energy storage; hybrid electric vehicles; power grids; distributed energy storage system; onboard battery unit; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; power grid; renewable energy sources; vehicle fleet; Batteries; Costs; Energy storage; Hybrid electric vehicles; Power generation; Power grids; Power system reliability; Renewable energy resources; Wind energy; Wind energy generation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2009. PES '09. IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Calgary, AB
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4241-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PES.2009.5275495