Durability and Reliability of EV Batteries under Electric Utility Grid Operations: Impact of Frequency Regulation Usage on Cell Degradation

George Baure and Matthieu Dubarry
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George Baure: Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 1680 East-West Road, POST 109, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Matthieu Dubarry: Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 1680 East-West Road, POST 109, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-11

Abstract: The usage of electric vehicle batteries to assist the main electric grid for the storage of energy provided by intermittent sources should become an essential tool to increase the penetration of green energies. However, this service induces additional usage on the cells and, therefore, could degrade them further. Since degradation is path-dependent, it is of paramount importance to test the impact of all the different grid applications on the batteries. In this work, we tested the additional usage induced by using electric vehicle batteries for frequency regulation at moderate rates during rest or charge and found no detrimental effect after around 2000 cycles on the cells.

Keywords: lithium-ion; dQ/dV; dV/dQ; frequency regulation; V2G; G2V; electric vehicle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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