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

The need of a change in many energy paradigm in view of a sustainable energy transition is introducing novel challenges in many fields such as power production, transmission, distribution and utilization. Also on the user side, defining new strategies to reach energy neutrality and sustainability is an important step in this process. This paper proposes a Virtual Partitioning Algorithm (VPA) for Electric Vehicles (EVs) energy storage system to provide vehicles-to-home (V2H) services in an novel and effective manner. The VPA will allow improving the environmental and economic performance of prosumers with residential photovoltaic systems without the need of installing dedicated flexibility devices, e.g. battery energy storage systems, or in co-operation with existing storage units if present. The VPA for V2H services is applied to a realistic residential test-case using real measured data and results highlighted its positive performances both from a economic and energy independence point of view.