Assistant Professor Ye Bin has once again been awarded a National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program grant

Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China officially announced the review results for applications received during the 2025 centralized submission period. Assistant Professor Ye Bin’s proposal, “Comprehensive Benefit Accounting and Incentive Mechanisms for Coordinated Charging and Discharging of Electric Vehicles under Vehicle-to-Grid Interaction,” has once again been approved. In recent years, Assistant Professor Ye Bin has successfully obtained funding for all three National Natural Science Foundation applications, demonstrating that his research work has received high recognition from peers. Project team members include postdoctoral researchers Wang Jin and Lou Duo, and research assistants Pu Hongjiang and Liang Xuyang.

As the number of electric vehicles in China has surpassed 31.4 million, large-scale integration of electric vehicles into the power grid presents both challenges and opportunities. The transportation sector is the primary source of urban carbon emissions; promoting its electrification is a critical step toward achieving China’s “dual-carbon” goals. However, uncoordinated charging of electric vehicles may exacerbate peak-valley differences in the grid and trigger grid fluctuations. Through coordinated charging and discharging regulation, electric vehicles can be transformed into valuable mobile energy-storage resources that participate in grid regulation and renewable-energy accommodation.

Assistant Professor Ye Bin’s team has long focused on energy management and electricity-market research. This project innovatively integrates the electricity market and the carbon-trading market, constructing a dual incentive mechanism of “demand response–carbon allowance” aimed at resolving the stochastic and decentralized challenges in electric-vehicle charging and discharging management. Research emphases include: analysis of electric-vehicle user-behavior characteristics, design of charging-and-discharging guidance strategies, construction of multi-stakeholder interest-coordination mechanisms, and model validation based on empirical data from Shenzhen.

Project outcomes will provide critical technical support to load aggregators, guiding them in formulating market-oriented operational strategies; offer policy-making foundations for government departments to promote large-scale development of “vehicle-to-grid interaction”; reduce charging costs for vehicle owners; improve grid-operation efficiency; and achieve a win-win in both economic and environmental benefits.

This National Natural Science Foundation General Program grant represents full affirmation from the Management Science Division of the National Natural Science Foundation of China of the research strength of Assistant Professor Ye Bin’s team. The research group will seize this opportunity to deepen investigation in the vehicle-to-grid interaction field, providing theoretical support and practical guidance for the coordinated development of electric vehicles and the power grid in China, and advancing green and low-carbon transformation in the transportation sector.

The project team sincerely thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China for its funding and trust, thanks the university’s research-management departments for their strong support, and looks forward to extensive exchanges and cooperation with domestic and international colleagues.