Hi,
We are trying to model EV charging by including three parameters:
1. EV efficiency - The energy efficiency of EV changes with season.
2. Charging location - The charging can be done either at home, work or fast charging with a predefined share between them
3. Charging profile - Each charging location has its own specific DAYNITE charging profile
In our attempt to include all these parameters in the model we used following approach:
The EV efficiency is defined per season in the EFF parameter of the EV. The charging locations are defined as three distinct processes and the amount of the energy used by each process to charge the EV fleet is defined with FLO_MARK. The charging profile for each charging process is defined with help of FLO_FR.
The FLO_FRA is defined for DAYNITE, while we want to decide where energy is coming from on a seasonal level with help of FLO_MARK. To solve this difference in time resolution two processes are simulated for the charging where the first one have a DAYNITE time resolution and the second one SEASONAL resolution.
In attached you find a schematic over the modeled process.
When running this model the energy demand for TCAR-EL is variating between seasons and this variation is also presented in energy flow in and out (VAR-FIn/FOut) of the process (TCHARGE-XXX-Seasonal). BUT, the TCHARGE-XXX is for all seasons having the same energy flow corresponding the season with highest energy demand.
Our question is if it is possible to make the TCHARGE-XXX energy flow to variate over seasons so that it always match TCHARGE-XXX-Seasonal? Maybe there is a more simpel manner to model these charging characteristics? A simpler way in which we were thinking we could model was if there was a similar functionality of FLO-MARK that could be variable over DAYNITE timeslices, but we are not aware of such a functionality in TIMES-VEDA.
Kind regards
Janis
We are trying to model EV charging by including three parameters:
1. EV efficiency - The energy efficiency of EV changes with season.
2. Charging location - The charging can be done either at home, work or fast charging with a predefined share between them
3. Charging profile - Each charging location has its own specific DAYNITE charging profile
In our attempt to include all these parameters in the model we used following approach:
The EV efficiency is defined per season in the EFF parameter of the EV. The charging locations are defined as three distinct processes and the amount of the energy used by each process to charge the EV fleet is defined with FLO_MARK. The charging profile for each charging process is defined with help of FLO_FR.
The FLO_FRA is defined for DAYNITE, while we want to decide where energy is coming from on a seasonal level with help of FLO_MARK. To solve this difference in time resolution two processes are simulated for the charging where the first one have a DAYNITE time resolution and the second one SEASONAL resolution.
In attached you find a schematic over the modeled process.
When running this model the energy demand for TCAR-EL is variating between seasons and this variation is also presented in energy flow in and out (VAR-FIn/FOut) of the process (TCHARGE-XXX-Seasonal). BUT, the TCHARGE-XXX is for all seasons having the same energy flow corresponding the season with highest energy demand.
Our question is if it is possible to make the TCHARGE-XXX energy flow to variate over seasons so that it always match TCHARGE-XXX-Seasonal? Maybe there is a more simpel manner to model these charging characteristics? A simpler way in which we were thinking we could model was if there was a similar functionality of FLO-MARK that could be variable over DAYNITE timeslices, but we are not aware of such a functionality in TIMES-VEDA.
Kind regards
Janis