Decentralized loading coordinations for large-population plug-in electric vehicles and a few controllable bulk loads

This paper studies the loading coordinations for large-population autonomous individual (plug-in) electric vehicles (EVs) and a few controllable bulk loads, e.g. EV fleets, pumped storage hydro units, and so on. Due to the computational infeasibility of the centralized coordination methods to the underlying large-population systems, in this paper we develop a novel game-based decentralized coordination strategy. Following the proposed decentralized strategy update mechanism and under some mild conditions, the system may quickly converge to a nearly valley-fill Nash equilibrium. The results are illustrated with numerical examples.