Open AccessDynamic Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging—A Literature Review
Author(s) -
Steffen Limmer
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
energies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 93
ISSN - 1996-1073
DOI - 10.3390/en12183574
Subject(s) - dynamic pricing , flexibility (engineering) , electric vehicle , computer science , work (physics) , renewable energy , grid , smart grid , categorization , environmental economics , operations research , automotive engineering , power (physics) , business , engineering , economics , electrical engineering , marketing , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , physics , geometry , management , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Time-varying pricing is seen as an appropriate means for unlocking the potential flexibility from electric vehicle users. This in turn facilitates the future integration of electric vehicles and renewable energy resources into the power grid. The most complex form of time-varying pricing is dynamic pricing. Its application to electric vehicle charging is receiving growing attention and an increasing number of different approaches can be found in the literature. This work aims at providing an overview and a categorization of the existing work in this growing field of research. Furthermore, user studies and the modeling of user preferences via utility functions are discussed.