Intelligent power management in micro grids with EV penetration

  • Authors:
  • Bhuvaneswari Ramachandran;Sanjeev K. Srivastava;David A. Cartes

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA;Siemens Corporate Research, 755 College Rd. E, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA;Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability (IESES), Program Lead, Control and Automation, Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), Florida State University, 2000 Levy Ave., Suite ...

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Large deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) adds new challenges in the operation of a microgrid. Assuming that a number of EV owners allow their batteries to charge when their cars are parked, this paper proposes an approach that aims to find suitable individual active power set-points corresponding to the hourly charging rate of each EV battery connected to the microgrid. A multi agent system based controller is designed to find these active power set points for optimal power management of EVs, distributed energy resources in the microgrid, and the loads.