Integrated energy management of a plug-in electric vehicle in residential distribution systems with renewables

According to innovation in grid connected transportation industry and with ever increasing concerns on environmental issues and clean energy, electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) with low noise, zero emission, and high efficiency have attracted more and more attention of researchers, governments and industries, they are becoming the most likely fleets to replace gasoline vehicles in future power systems. In addition to the approved advantages for transportation, EVs have the potential to provide other benefits within the connected residential distribution to micro-grids and smart grids as part of a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system, knowing that in future systems residential distribution can be seen as an energy resource with decentralized and autonomous decisions in the energy management called smart house or prosumer. They can participate effectively in helping to balance supply and demand by valley filling and peak shaving. The EV battery can be charged during low demand and the stored power can be fed power back into the micro-grid during high-demand periods, providing a spinning reserve to dump short power demand changes. V2G may also be used to buffer renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic generators, by storing excess energy produced during illumination periods, and feeding it back into the grid during high-load periods, thus effectively stabilizing the intermittency of solar power. In this context, this paper describes an energy management system for a smart house based on hybrid PV-battery and V2G.