Towards a holistic and optimized framework for smart grid regulation

As the scale of electric vehicles (EVs) and data centers continues to expand, grid regulation utilizing EVs and data centers has attracted wide interest. However, all existing work only considers partial combination which does not leverage their functionalities to the full extent. In this paper, we present the design and performance evaluation of a novel system, which integrate the servers, UPS, Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) and Battery Swapping Stations (BSS) to realize a holistic and optimized smart grid regulation solution. With our proposed dynamic priority mechanism, the control tasks are allocated in a flexible and reasonable way. In addition, we design a novel control strategy to minimize the whole cost of the system. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed system outperforms alternative solutions in terms of grid regulation capacity and cost.