Integrating Electric Vehicles to Achieve Sustainable Energy as a Service Business Model in Smart Cities
07 Jun 2021-Vol. 3
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ secondary data from the literature to explore how EVs can achieve sustainable energy as a service business model in smart cities and suggest that EVs are major assets for a sustainable energy future as EV batteries offer an untapped opportunity to store electricity from renewable energy sources.
Abstract: The digitalization of the power grid to smart grid provides value added services to the prosumers and other stakeholders involved in the energy market, and possibly disrupts existing electricity services in smart cities. The use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) do not only challenge the sustainability of the smart grid but also promote and stimulate its upgrading. Undeniably, EVs can actively promote the development of the smart grid via two-way communications by deploying Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V). EVs have environmental benefits as compared to hybrids or even internal combustion engine vehicle as they can help minimize noise levels, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. The integration of EVs could bring substantial changes for the society not only in providing transportation services but also shifting economies from petroleum and reducing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from the transportation sector. Therefore, this study employs secondary data from the literature to explore how EVs can achieve sustainable energy as a service business model in smart cities. Findings from this study suggest that EVs are major assets for a sustainable energy future as EV batteries offers an untapped opportunity to store electricity from renewable energy sources. Implications from this study discusses the issues and recommendations for integrating of EVs in smart cities.
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TL;DR: This article analyzed how the term of community is conceptualized in the scholarly literature on energy systems, through a systematic review of 405 articles and found that the meanings attached to the notion of community and the alleged objectives pursued by communities vary substantially across concepts and over time.
Abstract: Community-based energy systems are gaining traction among policymakers and practitioners as promising models for implementing a low-carbon energy transition. As a result, there has been a proliferation of concepts in the scientific literature, such as community energy, energy communities, community solar, and community wind. However, what scholars mean by “community” in these contexts is often unclear and inconsistent. This paper provides further conceptual clarity in the field by analyzing how the term of community is conceptualized in the scholarly literature on energy systems, through a systematic review of 405 articles. We combine an author keyword network analysis of this corpus with an in-depth analysis of 183 definitions extracted from these articles and systematically coded across three dimensions: meanings, activities and objectives of communities. Our findings show that the meanings attached to the notion of community and the alleged objectives pursued by communities vary substantially across concepts and over time. In particular, there has been a shift away from a notion of community understood as a process that emphasizes participatory aspects toward a notion of community primarily referring to a place. Furthermore, there is a growing focus on communities' economic objectives rather than their social or political goals. These findings suggest a weakening of scholars’ attention to “transformative” notions of community emphasizing collective and grassroots processes of participation in energy transitions, to the benefit of “instrumental” notions. This trend runs the risk of placing the sole emphasis on the market value of communities, thereby diluting their distinctiveness from more commercial actors.
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TL;DR: In this paper , an analysis of the existing literature on the resilience of power systems and EVs is carried out in two parts in two part in two different parts in order to evaluate the impact of EVs on the power system resilience during power outages.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors proposed a novel FSSMA for EV benchmarking based on two methods, the Pythagorean probabilistic hesitant fuzzy sets and fuzzy weighted zero inconsistency (PPH-FWZIC) and the measurement of alternatives and ranking according to the compromise solution (MARCOS), which are integrated as a single method.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the digital transformation of Collaborative Enterprise (CE), both in terms of planning and implementation, relies on new business models and innovative technologies, one of such technologies is Distrib...
Abstract: Digital transformation of Collaborative Enterprise (CE), both in terms of planning and implementation, relies on new business models and innovative technologies. One of such technologies is Distrib...
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors identify technology and economy as the main driving forces behind the development of electric vehicles in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) and develop a research agenda and contribute new knowledge in the field of electric vehicle.
Abstract: The Greater Bay Area (GBA) accounts for a high percentage of pollution due to the large number of internal combustion engines. In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in internal combustion engines vehicles while electric vehicles have not taken off yet in GBA. To a certain extent, the acceptance of electric vehicles is still questionable from the industrial practitioners and local communities. As such, this research study aims to identify the challenges and opportunities of electric vehicles in GBA to address the future direction of electric vehicles in GBA. In this study, it identifies technology and economy as the main driving forces behind the development of electric vehicles. Furthermore, sustainability, safety, and the life of the batteries may induce the slow adoption of electric vehicles. As expected, the study develops a research agenda and contributes new knowledge in the field of electric vehicle.
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