Title
Volt-VAr Control and Energy Storage Device Operation to Improve the Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination in Unbalanced Distribution Networks
Date Issued
01 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sabillon-Antunez C.
Melgar-Dominguez O.D.
Franco J.F.
Lavorato M.
Rider M.J.
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
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 three-phase 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 to minimize 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.
Start page
1560
End page
1570
Volume
8
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85030178022
Source
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
ISSN of the container
19493029
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received October 19, 2016; revised February 10, 2017; accepted April 11, 2017. Date of publication April 18, 2017; date of current version September 15, 2017. This work was supported by the Brazilian institutions CAPES, CNPq, and FAPESP. Paper no. TSTE-00805-2016. (Corresponding author: Marcos J. Rider.) C. Sabillon and O. D. Melgar-Dominguez are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, UNESP – São Paulo State University, Ilha Solteira 15385-000, São Paulo, Brazil (e-mail: cfsa27@gmail.com; ozzy. damedo@gmail.com).
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