Smart Home Scheduling with Electric Vehicles for Efficient Grid Import
Cost Reduction Using Demand Response
Abstract
This work aims to analyze the impact of usage patterns of multiple and
different types of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and schedulable home (Smart
Homes) on system reliability and suggest measures to improve system
reliability. Distributed Generation (DG) using renewables is a salient
feature of a smart grid. However, Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are
highly intermittent. During times when energy available from RESs and
EVs is lower than the demand, energy may be purchased from the grid at
Real Time Price (RTP). Demand Response (DR) is performed on two scales:
Incentive-Based Demand Response (IBDR) on the consumer side and Price
Based DR (PBDR) on the grid side. Controllable loads are shifted based
on RTP of grid at that hour to ensure energy balance in the system. Part
of the curtailable load can be shed based on the availability of power
depending on the usage patterns of individual customers to ensure
reliability. The novelty of this work is analysing the Impact of Usage
Patterns with multiple and different types of EVs and implementing DR
incorporating individual customer usage pattern for ensuring reliability
of the system