Vehicle-to-Home Service via Electric Vehicle Energy Storage Virtual Partitioning

The need for a change in view of a sustainable energy transition is introducing novel challenges in many fields such as power production, transmission, distribution and utilization. On the user side, defining new strategies to reach energy neutrality and sustainability is an important step in this process. This paper proposes a novel Virtual Partitioning Algorithm (VPA) for Electric Vehicles (EVs) energy storage system to provide vehicles-to-home (V2H) services in a novel and effective manner. The VPA will improve the environmental and economic performance of prosumers with residential photovoltaic or other renewable energy systems by exploiting the energy storage availability of EVs in an effective way. The VPA for V2H services is applied to realistic residential single-family and multi-family housing test cases using real measured data. Results highlight the positive impact of the proposed approach both from an economic and energy sustainability point of view.