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Design of a TCP-like Smart Charging Controller for Power Quality in Electrical Distribution Systems

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Ammar Alyousef,

Hermann de MeerAuthors Info & Claims

e-Energy '19: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

Pages 128 - 138

https://doi.org/10.1145/3307772.3328293

Published: 15 June 2019 Publication History

Abstract

The increase in Electric Vehicles (EV) penetration may add a significant amount of load to the power grid potentially causing several challenges like overloading of assets and big voltage drops on feeder lines. Overcoming those challenges will be hard because of the variability and unpredictability of EV loads, namely, the lack of information on when, where, for how long or how fast charging processes of EVs would take place. However, the EV extra load had arguably not been taken into account when the distribution grid was designed originally. In addition, expanding the distribution and transmission capacity is a very costly and long process. Hence, it is necessary to adopt a smart EV charging approach to address the issues of peak load and power quality. This work focuses on proposing and evaluating a new smart EV charging controller inspired by the slow start mechanism of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) on the Internet. The controller is a part of a distributed smart charging architecture and responds to indication signals regarding the grid state in real time. The indication process adopts a traffic light model and is performed in a distributed way at the grid connection point of each individual Charging Station (CS). Thanks to the notification mechanism, the controller is able to deal with the overloading of assets and keeps the voltage within the allowed boundaries as predefined by the grid operator. The voltage control considers not only the CS but also predetermined remote points.

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