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This uncertainty is due to the day-ahead market prices and the driving requirements of the owners of the vehicles. Depending on the consent of the owners, inflexible charging to flexible charging is considered. Thus, the aggregator can propose different profiles and charging periods to the owners of electric vehicles. Qualitatively, as expected, the more flexible the vehicle owners, the higher the expected profit. The formulation, however, offers more to the aggregator and provides the ability to quantify the influence of consent of favorable driving requirements in the expected profit, allowing the aggregator to consider rewarding the owners of vehicles with more flexibility. Case studies addressed are for comparison of the influence of owners having inflexibility, partial flexibility, or flexibility in the expected profit of the aggregator.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/en13205443","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]],"date-time":"2020-10-19T09:36:28Z","timestamp":1603100188000},"page":"5443","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Comparison between Inflexible and Flexible Charging of Electric Vehicles\u2014A Study from the Perspective of an Aggregator"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3110-6644","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Isaias","family":"Gomes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ICT, Instituto Ci\u00eancias da Terra, Universidade de \u00c9vora, 7002-554 \u00c9vora, Portugal"},{"name":"IDMEC, Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1081-2729","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Melicio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ICT, Instituto Ci\u00eancias da Terra, Universidade de \u00c9vora, 7002-554 \u00c9vora, Portugal"},{"name":"IDMEC, Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Departamento de F\u00edsica, Escola de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia, Universidade de \u00c9vora, 7002-554 \u00c9vora, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4599-477X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Victor","family":"Mendes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de F\u00edsica, Escola de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia, Universidade de \u00c9vora, 7002-554 \u00c9vora, Portugal"},{"name":"CISE, Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilh\u00e3, Portugal"},{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (2010). 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