Electric Vehicle Battery Virtual Partitioning Algorithm for Residential Vehicle-to-Home Service

The current trend of electrification and transition to a sustainable and resilient electricity energy scenario is introducing new challenges and necessary improvements on the generation, transmission, distribution and end-user side. These changes require introducing novel solutions to exploit at maximum the potentials of the ongoing electrification of several sectors, especially at customer level. This paper proposes a novel Virtual Partitioning Algorithm (VPA) dedicated to vehicles-to-home (V2H) service provided by private Electric Vehicles (EVs). The VPA will allow improving the environmental and economic performance of prosumers that have residential photovoltaic plants without the need of installing dedicated flexibility devices, e.g. battery energy storage systems (ST), or integrating existing storage units to expand the overall capacity without additional costs. This will help moving in the direction of a more sustainable energy scenario for buildings and energy systems also in the frame of novel configuration such as renewable energy communities. The proposed solution has been tested in a realistic residential setup with real data and the results highlighted the benefits from both the system integration and economic side.