access icon free Economic planning approach for electric vehicle charging stations integrating traffic and power grid constraints

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Received 28/03/2018, Accepted 05/06/2018, Revised 06/05/2018, Published 16/07/2018

Large-scale electric vehicle (EV) charging will bring new challenges to coordination of grid and transportation. To facilitate large-scale EV applications, optimal locating and sizing of charging stations have become essential. For the investors of a charging station, economic benefit is the primary and the only objective. In this context, this work studies the siting and sizing of EV stations based on the optimal economic benefit. Benefit changes with time, location and capacity. A planning model method considering net present value (NPV) and life cycle cost (LCC) is proposed to determine the site and the size of the charging stations. The model has integrated distribution network constraint, the user constraint and the traffic flow captured constraint. Origin–destination lines and voronoi diagram are selected to calculate the traffic flow and the service region of each charging station, respectively. The quantum genetic algorithm was adopted for a better convergence of the planning model. Finally, a coupled 33-node distribution system and a 36-node transportation system are used to simulate various scenarios in the coupled networks of grid and transportation. The simulation results show that by introducing a planning model method considering NPV and LCC, the charging station economical benefits can be further improved.

Inspec keywords: computational geometry; electric vehicle charging; power distribution economics; power grids; power distribution planning; genetic algorithms

Other keywords: traffic flow captured constraint; integrated distribution network constraint; traffic constraint; economic planning approach; life cycle cost; power grid constraint; net present value; optimal economic benefit; EV station sizing; quantum genetic algorithm; NPV; origin-destination lines; user constraint; EV station siting; LCC; 36-node transportation system; large-scale electric vehicle charging stations; coupled 33-node distribution system; Voronoi diagram

Subjects: Optimisation techniques; Transportation; Power system planning and layout; Power system management, operation and economics; Distribution networks

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