Abstract— This work presents a systemic method to address the
integration of electric vehicle (EV) services in electricity distribution
areas. Unidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is considered
as the first feasible step in exploiting the EVs potential to provide
energy services for the grid, because it necessitates of fewer
infrastructures and gives lower stress to EV batteries. The implementation
of unidirectional V2G requires the application of
smart grid (SG) features in distribution networks with local micro-
generation units, which involves dealing with the microgrid
(MG) concept. In this respect, a generalized model is proposed
to facilitate the definition of the possible modes of V2G interaction
with both the other domains of the MG and the SG interface.
An application of the methodology is proposed for the energy
trading in short-time markets. In this case, the participation
of V2G is addressed via optimization-based modeling where
the different EV service attributes are considered by indices.