%0 Journal Article
%K Energy Markets and Policy Department
%K Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division
%K Carbon emissions
%K Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
%K Distributed Generation (DG)
%K Microgrids
%K Commercial Buildings
%K Smart grid
%K Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
%K Electric vehicle
%K Load shifting
%K Optimization
%K Storage technologies
%A Michael Stadler
%A Chris Marnay
%A Maximillian Kloess
%A Gonçalo Cardoso
%A Gonçalo Mendes
%A Afzal S Siddiqui
%A Ratnesh Sharma
%A Olivier Mégel
%A Judy Lai
%B Journal of Energy Engineering, Special Issue: Challenges and opportunities in the 21st century energy  infrastructure
%C Berkeley
%D 2012
%I LBNL
%N 2
%P 95-108
%R 10.1061/(ASCE)EY.1943-7897.0000070 
%T Optimal Planning and Operation of Smart Grids with Electric Vehicle Interconnection
%V 138
%2 LBNL-5251E
%8 06/2012
%! J. Energy Eng.
%X <p>Connection of electric storage technologies to smartgrids will have substantial implications for building energy systems. Local storage will enable demand response. When connected to buildings, mobile storage devices such as electric vehicles (EVs) are in competition with conventional stationary sources at the building. EVs can change the financial as well as environmental attractiveness of on-site generation (e.g. PV or fuel cells). In order to examine the impact of EVs on building energy costs and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, a distributed-energy-resources adoption problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear program with minimization of annual building energy costs or CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and solved for 2020 technology assumptions. The mixed integer linear program is applied to a set of 139 different commercial buildings in California and example results as well as the aggregated economic and environmental benefits are reported. Special constraints for the available PV, solar thermal, and EV parking lots at the commercial buildings are considered. The research shows that EV batteries can be used to reduce utility related energy costs at the smart grid or commercial building due to arbitrage of energy between buildings with different tariffs. However, putting more emphasis on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions makes stationary storage more attractive and stationary storage capacities increase while the attractiveness of EVs decreases. The limited availability of EVs at the commercial building decreases the attractiveness of EVs and if PV is chosen by the optimization, then it is mostly used to charge the stationary storage at the commercial building and not the EVs connected to the building.</p>