Demonstration of smart charging interface in Green Campus

Author

Makkonen, Henri ; Tikka, Ville ; Lassila, Jukka ; Partanen, Jarmo ; Silventoinen, Pertti

Author_Institution

Lapeenranta Univ. Of Technol., Lappeenranta, Finland

fYear

2014

fDate

26-28 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In this paper, a description of a smart charging interface in an actual smart grid environment is presented. In addition, some results of controlled smart charging events are shown. The smart charging interface in Green Campus Smart Grid allows handling and controlling multiple electric vehicles (EVs) within the campus area based on information from the EVs and other sources. Furthermore, the interface is uniformed to allow connection of different types of loads and generation units. With the information gathered by the interfaces, the smart charging system is able to form a charging window for the connected EVs and is also capable to perform power and energy balancing with the mobile energy storages which the EVs provide. In addition, the connected EVs can be used as a backup power if the EVs are suitable for V2G (vehicle to grid). The data connection between the EVs and the charging pole is implemented with power line communication (PLC) and the charging poles are connected to the smart charging system with Ethernet.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; electric vehicles; local area networks; power generation control; smart power grids; Ethernet; PLC; V2G; actual smart grid environment; charging pole; charging window; controlled smart charging events; energy balancing; generation units; green campus; load units; mobile energy storages; multiple electric vehicles; power balancing; power line communication; smart charging interface; vehicle to grid; Databases; Educational institutions; Energy management; Energy storage; Facsimile; Green products; Smart grids; Charging Infrastructure for EV´s; Electric Vehicle; Energy system management; Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV); Smart Grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'14-ECCE Europe), 2014 16th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lappeenranta

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2014.6910776

Filename

6910776