Degradation-Aware Bi-Level Optimization of Second-Life Battery Energy Storage System Considering Demand Charge Reduction

Degradation-Aware Bi-Level Optimization of Second-Life Battery Energy Storage System Considering Demand Charge Reduction

Many electric vehicle (EV) batteries will retire in the next 5–10 years around the globe. These batteries are retired when no longer suitable for energy-intensive EV operations despite having 70–80% capacity left. The second-life use of these battery packs has the potential to address the increasing...

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Main Authors: Ali Hassan, Guilherme Vieira Hollweg, Wencong Su, Xuan Zhou, Mengqi Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-07-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
battery energy storage
second-life batteries
demand charge
circular economy
energy management
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/15/3894
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Summary:Many electric vehicle (EV) batteries will retire in the next 5–10 years around the globe. These batteries are retired when no longer suitable for energy-intensive EV operations despite having 70–80% capacity left. The second-life use of these battery packs has the potential to address the increasing demand for battery energy storage systems (BESSs) for the electric grid, which will also create a robust circular economy for EV batteries. This article proposes a two-layered energy management algorithm (monthly layer and daily layer) for demand charge reduction for an industrial consumer using photovoltaic (PV) panels and BESSs made of retired EV batteries. In the proposed algorithm, the monthly layer (ML) calculates the optimal dispatch for the whole month and feeds the output to the daily layer (DL), which optimizes the BESS dispatch, BESSs’ degradation, and energy imported/exported from/to the grid. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is tested as a case study of an industrial load using a real-world demand charge and Real-Time Pricing (RTP) tariff. Compared with energy management with no consideration of degradation or demand charge reduction, this algorithm results in 71% less degradation of BESS and 57.3% demand charge reduction for the industrial consumer.
ISSN:1996-1073

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