Energy Management of Electric Vehicles Parking in a Power Distribution Network Using Robust Optimization Method

Ghahramani, Mehrdad; Nazari-Heris, Morteza; Zare, Kazem; Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Behnam

doi:10.22109/jemt.2018.133242.1094

Energy Management of Electric Vehicles Parking in a Power Distribution Network Using Robust Optimization Method

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mehrdad Ghahramani ¹

Morteza Nazari-Heris ¹

Kazem Zare ²

Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo ¹

¹ Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

² Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz

10.22109/jemt.2018.133242.1094

Abstract

Optimal, safe and robust scheduling and planning of electric energy distribution networks are very important considering such networks as one of the most important components of electrical networks. Electric vehicles are one of the major features of the future electricity distribution networks. In this paper, an optimal robust model is proposed for short-term scheduling of distribution network in the presence of uncertainties to minimize the cost of network operation. The robust optimization (RO) method is applied in this research to address the uncertainty associated with power market price. To investigate the proposed method, a 33-bus IEEE-standard system has been applied, which contains distributed renewable generation units and non-renewable energy sources. The obtained results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method in network scheduling in the presence of uncertainties. Also, the impact of electric vehicle parking as an energy storage system on the functional cost of the distribution network is discussed, which defines the practicality and high performance of the proposed model on scheduling of electric distribution networks.

Keywords

Distribution network

robust optimization

Uncertainty

Wind Turbine

electric vehicles

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