Vehicle Air Conditioner Temperature Regulation-based Orderly Charging Strategy for Electric Vehicles

Abstract

Due to high power load peaks and long durations in extreme weather conditions, as well as large-scale unscheduled electric vehicles charging, it may cause “peak plus peak” loading in local areas of the power grid, moreover, lead to transformer substations overload operation in local areas, which is not good for distribution safe and stable operation of the power grid. Considering the driver’s willingness, this study proposes an orderly charging strategy based on the temperature control of electric vehicle on-board air conditioner. The proposed strategy first constructs the temperature control model for electric vehicle cabins with considering the temperature of entire electric vehicle and the special characteristics of urban roads. Then, multi-objective function is formed with minimum user charging cost and variance of grid load fluctuations. Finally, electric vehicles orderly charging period is optimized by combining with electric vehicle travel chains, charge constraints, time-of-use electricity prices, and substation capacity constraints. The results show that temperature-controlled dispatching can effectively reduce the electric vehicles disorderly charging load. It can serve the power grid “cut peaks and fill valleys” and smooth the overall grid load curve using an improved Lagrange relaxation algorithm to optimize electric vehicles charging period.