Optimal Design of a Planning and Contracting Framework to Enable Vehicle to Building and Grid Services via Demand Response

Bidirectional electric vehicle (EV) charging enables stored energy to reduce peak loads for buildings (V2B) and the grid (V2G). However, building owners investing in V2B infrastructure while generating revenue from V2G services face challenges in planning and coordinating with EV owners due to uncertainties in their schedules and profit-sharing expectations. Additionally, misaligned building and grid peak times can create conflicts between V2B and V2G goals, which may negatively impact the building electricity bill. Unlike previous studies that used a contract-free approach for aggregating V2B and V2G, resulting in inconsistent participation, this paper proposes a novel planning and contracting framework that enables building owner to determine the optimal contract parameters with EV owners. These parameters include minimum participation time in DR events, minimum arrival State of Charge (SoC), and permitted emergency departure hours. The framework supports V2B aggregation with on-site distributed energy resources for DR and V2G services, ensuring transparency and fairness through shared profits and performance-based penalties, while compensating building electricity bills due to V2G activities. The framework is composed of a tri-stage optimization process that uses Monte Carlo Simulations to generate EV owner profit assessments, select optimal EV candidates based on charger availability, estimate contract parameters with profit/penalty sharing, and assign contracts between power system operators, building owners, and EV owners under multiple virtual scenarios. Simulation results validate the contract parameter assessment and its performance via a three day case study with real-world data sets that demonstrates net revenue generation of $209 for each EV owner and $950 for building owners during DR events with a Return on Investment (ROI) of 134.5% 130.7% for the EVs and Building owners, respectively.