Forecasting the PEV owner reaction to the electricity price based on the customer acceptance index

Concerns about the environment and green energy brings a huge development opportunity to plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). PEVs have an outlook to enhance the functionalities of the power grid. Using PEVs, lets us feed power from the vehicle's battery packs back to the grid or to pull power from the grid to recharge the batteries. It means that we have a bidirectional flow of power between the vehicle and the grid. PEVs improves the social welfare by reducing the customer costs. The most important point in using a vehicle to grid (V2G) is to evaluate the behavior of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PEV) owners and estimate their acceptance facing the demand side managements programs (DSM). In this paper, a mathematical model is presented for evaluating the reaction of PEV owners in response to electricity price. This method allows the utilities to have a short term scheduling in order to balance the available power and demand utilizing the PEVs.