Electric vehicles in automatic generation control for systems with large integration of renewables

This work addresses the possibility of integrating Electric Vehicles (EV) in the Automatic Generation Control (AGC) operation for provision of secondary reserves in interconnected systems, contributing to reduce the requirements for conventional secondary reserves in systems with large scale integration of renewable sources. A test system was used to assess the performance of EV as secondary reserve providers, when facing the loss of conventional generation as well as the loss of a large amount of wind power production.