ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the basic Smart procurement of naturally generated energy (SPONGE) problem, in a more formal fashion. It describes the several ingredients that are required to implement the SPONGE approach in practice. The chapter also describes a special use case where SPONGE is applied to a fleet of hybrid buses. It provides some simulation results to support the efficacy of the proposed methods. The chapter explains some simulation results obtained in the use case of the hybrid buses. In the Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) simulations, the practical energy consumption of each vehicle was calculated according to an approximated linear mapping between the traveled distance and the State Of Charge (SOC). Accordingly, in the remainder of this chapter we shall describe a different algorithm to apply SPONGE-like ideas, in a specific case study. The chapter argues that 16 PHEBs participate to a SPONGE program in Dublin city, Ireland.
