Abstract
This paper describes smart power management and charging scheduling strategy for a multiple port electric vehicle (EV) charging station, connected to battery storage systems and renewable energy sources. The charging station can charge different types of EVs, like electric scooters and passenger cars at different power levels. The energy management optimizes the usage of the power sources to fulfill the charging demand by analyzing the overall load demand, the electricity tariff, and the information provided by the EV user. The station's control system is set up to satisfy the charging demand primarily with a solar photovoltaic (PV) array and an energy storage system (ESS) as a battery. In the case of PV power generation and battery power shortage, it draws power from the grid to fulfill the charging demand. Additionally, a charging scheduling strategy is described in this paper in which the charging current setpoint for each charger is estimated by an optimization process in the local charger controller. The overall system management and charging scheduling are simulated and verified in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1240-1247 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Transportation Research Procedia |
Volume | 72 |
Issue number | 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Event | TRA - Transport Research Arena Conference Lisbon 2022 - Lisbon Congress Center, Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 14 Nov 2022 → 17 Nov 2022 https://traconference.eu/ |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission under grant agreement no. 875131 (eCharge4Driver project). We, as authors, also acknowledge Flanders Make for the support to our research group.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
Keywords
- electric vehicle (EV)
- power management
- smart charging scheduling
- modular
- scalable
- PV
- ESS