A Study on Mobility Sector Coupling Technology and its Economic and Environmental Effects: Data-driven Approach

Abstract

Under the international commitment of carbon neutrality, the national energy mix is being transformed to adapt to new regimes such as the EU’s green taxonomy. Accordingly, as the proportion of renewable energy is rapidly increasing, challenging issues in the power system such as over-generation and excessive planning of network and reserve resources are emerging. As one of the effective demand resources to compensate the issues, technical researches and demonstrations about mobility sector coupling technology, namely power-to-mobility (P2M), are in progress. Meanwhile, the contribution effect of P2M technology on the changing power system must be verified before commercialization. The evaluation must be made on the analysis of empirical data, and subsequently, the P2M potential and availability must be quantified and formulated. Therefore, in this study, P2M technology was evaluated in economic and environmental perspectives. The P2M effects using chargers in residential and public areas was presented in part I and II, respectively. Part III proposed a method to quantitatively evaluate the technical potential of P2M as a demand flexibility resource. In the evaluation process, novel data-analytic approaches and optimization techniques were proposed. Through the study, meaningful implications were suggested such as the feasibility of P2M for government and stakeholders, and data-driven behaviors of mobility resources for power system and data analysis engineers.