Modeling and simultaneous management of electric vehicle penetration and demand response to improve distribution network performance

The usage of electric vehicles is daily increasing. It is predicted that the penetration of electric vehicles in the electrical network will grow steadily during the next few years. This growth of penetration causes major challenges for power system users, especially the distribution network. Firstly, increasing load consumption, especially during peak hours, and secondly, increasing the cost of developing a network to provide load, along with the operation moved away from the optimum point, are the major challenges of the penetration of electric vehicles. In this research, a solution is proposed not only to resolve these challenges but also to make an opportunity to improve the network parameters. In this study, the charging and discharging strategy along with two price-based and voltage-based load management programs are proposed to manage the penetration of electric vehicles for economic and technical purposes. The proposed plan is implemented by GAMS and MATLAB software on the distribution network, and finally, the results are evaluated.

Automated summary

The increasing usage of electric vehicles presents challenges for power system users, particularly in terms of load consumption and network development costs. This study proposes charging and discharging strategies, as well as load management programs, to address these challenges and improve network parameters.