Title: Aggregation server for grid-integrated vehicles

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for aggregating electric power flow between an electric grid and electric vehicles are disclosed. An apparatus for aggregating power flow may include a memory and a processor coupled to the memory to receive electric vehicle equipment (EVE) attributes from a plurality of EVEs, aggregate EVE attributes, predict total available capacity based on the EVE attributes, and dispatch at least a portion of the total available capacity to the grid. Power flow may be aggregated by receiving EVE operational parameters from each EVE, aggregating the received EVE operational parameters, predicting total available capacity based on the aggregated EVE operational parameters, and dispatching at least a portion of the total available capacity to the grid.

Inventors:

Kempton, Willett

Issue Date:

Tue May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:

Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE

OSTI Identifier:

1182566

Patent Number(s):

9043038

Application Number:

12/887,064

Assignee:

University of Delaware (Newark, DE)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):

B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B60 - VEHICLES IN GENERAL B60L - PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES

G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06Q - DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES

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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B60 - VEHICLES IN GENERAL B60L - PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES

B60L2240/34 - Cabin temperature
B60L2240/545 - Temperature
B60L2240/622 - by satellite navigation
B60L2240/72 - Charging station selection relying on external data
B60L2260/56 - Temperature prediction, e.g. for pre-cooling
B60L2270/32 - of electricity
B60L53/14 - Conductive energy transfer
B60L53/305 - {Communication interfaces}
B60L53/63 - in response to network capacity
B60L53/64 - Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
B60L53/65 - involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
B60L53/665 - {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment}
B60L53/68 - Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control
B60L55/00 - Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements

G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06Q - DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES

G06Q20/085 - {involving remote charge determination or related payment systems}
G06Q20/22 - Payment schemes or models
G06Q30/0601 - {Electronic shopping}
G06Q50/06 - Electricity, gas or water supply

H - ELECTRICITY H02 - GENERATION H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER

H02J3/008 - {involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights}
H02J3/322 - {the battery being on-board an electric or hybrid vehicle, e.g. vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G], power aggregation, use of the battery for network load balancing, coordinated or cooperative battery charging}
H02J3/38 - Arrangements for parallely feeding a single network by two or more generators, converters or transformers

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION

Y02E60/00 - Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

Y02T10/70 - Energy storage for electromobility
Y02T10/7072 - Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
Y02T10/72 - Electric energy management in electromobility
Y02T90/12 - Electric charging stations
Y02T90/14 - Plug-in electric vehicles
Y02T90/16 - Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
Y02T90/167 - Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y04 - INFORMATION OR COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES HAVING AN IMPACT ON OTHER TECHNOLOGY AREAS Y04S - SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS

Y04S10/126 - the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
Y04S30/14 - Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing
Y04S50/10 - Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

Y10S903/93 - Conjoint control of different elements

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DOE Contract Number:  

FC26-08NT01905

Resource Type:

Patent

Country of Publication:

United States

Language:

English

Subject:

33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS; 25 ENERGY STORAGE