Proposal for a local electricity-sharing system: a case study of Yokohama city, Japan

Yoshiki Yamagata; Hajime Seya

Proposal for a local electricity-sharing system: a case study of Yokohama city, Japan

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Author(s): Yoshiki Yamagata ¹ and Hajime Seya ¹
- Affiliations: 1: Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa 16-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
Source: Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2015, p. 38 – 49
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2013.0018 , Print ISSN 1751-956X, Online ISSN 1751-9578

Received 29/01/2013, Accepted 13/01/2014, Revised 26/12/2013, Published 03/03/2014

Here, the authors propose the concept of a local electricity-sharing system as a complement or alternative to a feed-in tariff to achieve CO₂-neutral transportation in cities. In the authors’ proposed system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels (PVs) is stored in the cars ‘not in use’ in a city. In Japan, almost half of the cars in the central Tokyo metropolitan area are used only on weekends and thus are kept parked during weekdays. These cars represent a huge new potential storage depot if they were replaced by electric vehicles (EVs), that is, they could be used as storage batteries in a vehicle-to-grid system. Using an agent-based transportation simulator (MATSim), the authors modelled the effects of a large-scale introduction of EVs and PVs on the hourly regional power demand–supply for Yokohama city, Japan. The results of our simulation suggest that CO₂-neutral EV trips can be achieved only during periods with current average solar irradiance.

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