Vehicle to Grid—Energy Conversion and Conservation

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Sustainability in the subject area of “Vehicle to Grid—Energy Conversion and Conservation”.

Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles are becoming increasingly popular as a result of high oil prices and public interest in protecting the environment. This inspires the researchers to develop the so-called V2G concept, an intellectual framework for connecting electric vehicles to the grid. One wants enhancements to the electric grid, including improved reliability and more stable frequency, but would rather not build any new power plants or transmission lines.

Battery-powered vehicles are viewed as distributed energy resources in V2G technology, capable of serving as both supply and demand resources. This is accomplished using a charger that becomes an energy conversion device that ties an HV battery into the grid. Bidirectional DC-DC converters and bidirectional AC-DC converters are involved in energy conversion from grid to vehicle or vehicle to grid, causing a number of issues. The heart of V2G/Vehicle-Grid-Integration (VGI) technology is this intelligent, bidirectional flow of energy. V2G technology also involves the concept of an on-board/off-board V2G integrator.

This Special Issue focuses on emerging trends, potential barriers, possible research directions, and challenges affecting V2G technology involving on-board/off-board V2G integrators, multi-objective optimal scheduling strategy, bidirectional DC-DC and  AC-DC converters and their control, V2G economic prospects, V2G penetration on a distribution system, frequency regulation control, energy storage sizing, V2G communication, modeling of V2G components, integration of renewables such as wind/solar using V2G as flexible storage, power factors, power loss, and reactive power issues, smart battery management scheme, cost–benefit analysis, etc.

The submission of multimedia with each article, if possible, is highly appreciated as it significantly enhances the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Prof. Dr. Ghulam Abbas
Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan
Dr. Mousa Marzband
Dr. Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan
Guest Editors

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• V2G integration
• V2G-based PEV charging and discharging
• Frequency regulation control
• on-board/off-board V2G integrators
• bidirectional DC-DC and AC-DC converters
• control of bidirectional converters
• communication network structures for V2G systems
• reactive power compensation
• aggregator of PEVs
• smart battery management scheme
• cost–benefit analysis