Special Seminar on Energy Storage System: Combining energy storage with demand-side management: How to leverage electric vehicle batteries

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Date 07.02.2025
Hour 10:0011:00
Speaker Dr Christine Gschwendtner, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT, USA
Location Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English
Abstract
Energy storage is likely to be important for balancing energy supply and demand as the share of variable renewable energy increases alongside changes to peak demand from electrification. Although electric vehicles can contribute to increased peak demand, their batteries can also serve as distributed energy storage. This requires demand-side management, which includes reducing charging demand during peak periods or even providing energy to the grid through vehicle-to-grid technology. However, evaluating this potential requires an understanding of human-technology interactions, as the use of electric vehicles depends on human decision-making. This presentation will provide insights from three studies investigating how plug-in decisions, charging processes, and price signals affect the potential for demand-side management with electric vehicle batteries.

Bio
Christine Gschwendtner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. Her research integrates infrastructure systems across the transportation and energy sectors and investigates the impacts of human-technology interactions and industrial processes on those systems. One of her key goals is to identify the potential for combining energy storage with demand-side management to reduce investment needs. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, received her PhD from ETH Zurich, and graduated with an MSc from the University of Oxford.