Abstract

As the number of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, EV charging demand is also growing rapidly. In the smart grid environment, there is an urgent need for green charging stations (GCS) to effectively manage the internal photovoltaic (PV), energy storage system (ESS), charging behaviors of EVs and energy transactions with entities. In this paper, a novel EV classification approach was proposed for GCS, of which the objective is to minimize the total cost of energy trading between charging station and entities. Based on EV charging requirements and risk preference for participating in demand response (DR), EVs are classified into three categories: (1) regular; (2) conservative; and (3) vehicle to grid(V2G). For different types of EVs, charging price schemes are proposed for GCS to stimulate more EVs to interact with the grid and duly dis-charging their power in the capacity of V2G runners. In dealing with the uncertainty issues caused by photovoltaic generation, chance-constrained and probabilistic sequence methods are employed to solve the proposed framework with satisfactory computational efficiency. Case studies based on genuine PV generation, load and pricing data are carried out to verify the proposed framework. It is demonstrated V2G EVs can dramatically reduce the total cost to the GCS. Besides, V2G EVs also can greatly reduce the charging cost compared to regular and conservative EVs.

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