Impact of Smart EVs on Day-Ahead Prices in the French Market

Margaret Armstrong (1) , Amira Iguer (2) , Valeriia Iezhova (1) , Jérôme Adnot (2) , Philippe Rivière (2) , Alain Galli (1)

1 CERNA i3 - Centre d'économie industrielle i3
2 CEP/Paris

This chapter examines the impact that the introduction of electric cars would have on day-ahead electricity prices over the next 10-15 years, using the French grid as a case study. The authors are interested in statistically predicting the impact of EVs on the network by simulating the offers to buy and sell electricity on the day-ahead market. The two scenarios for recharging the EVs considered include the case where the grid can draw power from the batteries when prices are high--the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) concept. Most studies on the impact of wind power on day-ahead prices make two strong assumptions, namely that the demand is inelastic and/or supply is the same as the merit order. The major contribution of the chapter is to propose a method for modeling the offers to buy and sell power on the wholesale market in the absence of such restrictive assumptions.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Energétique

Margaret Armstrong, Amira Iguer, Valeriia Iezhova, Jérôme Adnot, Philippe Rivière, et al.. Impact of Smart EVs on Day-Ahead Prices in the French Market. Fereidoon Sioshansi. Smart Grid : Integrating Renewable, Distributed & Efficient Energy, Academic Press, pp.479-499, 2011, 978-0-12-386452-9. ⟨10.1016/B978-0-12-386452-9.00019-X⟩. ⟨hal-00768011⟩