ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe Vehicle to Grid (V2G) services that can be provided by Electric Vehicle (EV) to the power grid. They discuss some issues that may arise with V2G operations. The authors argue that treating a fleet of electric vehicles as a virtual storage system is not straightforward, due to the fact that the carbon footprint depends critically on the manner in which energy is drawn from the vehicles. They explore the infrastructure communicates to the vehicles when the vehicle mode Grid to Vehicle (G2V) has to switch to V2G. Accordingly, the reactive power management does not influence the battery charging process, and is transparent to the EV owner. However, both active and reactive power may actually flow in the other direction from the V2G. The active power Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) in V2G mode contains the changes for reverse power flow.
