Smart parking lot to minimize residential grid losses based on customer priorities

The growth of customer preferences towards plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles (PHEVs) is becoming more than before. The batteries of these vehicles need to be charged through plugging-in electric grids at home or parking station. By increasing number of PHEVs, these electric loads might have the impacts on the power system efficiency. The impacts specifically could endanger the distribution and micro grids performance, via difficulties such as overloading, power quality or voltage regulation. To overcome this problem charging scenarios are represented that optimize EVs charging at home from a standard outlet. But regarding the importance of smart parking lots, this work explores solving these challenges by replacing PHEVs in a parking station. The paper analyzes charging scenarios in the context of a parking lot. A residential grid is considered to verify this concept. In a new approach smart parking lot is developed and located based on customer priorities. The paper also investigates the integration of renewable energy into the parking lot to supply PHEVs.