Volt-VAr Control and Energy Storage Device Operation to Improve the Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination in Unbalanced Distribution Networks

In this paper, a new approach is presented to solve the electric vehicle charging coordination (EVCC) problem considering Volt-VAr control, energy storage device (ESD) operation and dispatchable distributed generation (DG) available in threephase unbalanced electrical distribution networks (EDNs). D...

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Autores: Sabillon-Antunez, Carlos, Melgar-Dominguez, Ozy D., Franco, John Fredy, Lavorato, Marina, Rider, Marcos J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Repositorio:Brújula
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uloyola.es:20.500.12412/4949
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/4949
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Voltage-dependent load model
Volt-VAr control
Mixed integer linear programming (MILP)
Energy storage devices (ESDs)
Electric vehicle charging coordination (EVCC) problem
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Sumario:In this paper, a new approach is presented to solve the electric vehicle charging coordination (EVCC) problem considering Volt-VAr control, energy storage device (ESD) operation and dispatchable distributed generation (DG) available in threephase unbalanced electrical distribution networks (EDNs). Dynamic scheduling for the EVCC is proposed through a step-by-step methodology, which solves a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem for the whole time period. The objective is tominimize the total cost of energy purchased from the substation and DG units, the cost of energy curtailment on electric vehicles, the cost of energy injected from the ESDs, and the cost of energy curtailment on the ESDs. The Volt-VAr control considers the management of on-load tap changers, voltage regulators, and switchable capacitors installed along the grid. Furthermore, the formulation takes into account the voltage dependence of the loads, while the steady-state operation of the unbalanced distribution systems is modeled using linear constraints. The proposed model was tested in a 178-node three-phase unbalanced EDN considering a one-day time period.