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Piecewise Linear Optimization for Public EV Charging Depots in Different Utility Environments

  • Alexander Brissette
  • , David Coats
  • , Don Scoffield

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Abstract

With the proliferation of electric vehicles (EVs), EV supply equipment technology is being pushed to increasingly higher power levels, such as extreme fast charging (XFC) at 300kW or more. As more public XFC depots are connected to electric distribution systems, utility operators will mitigate their impact with pricing schemes and programs such as demand response, demand charges, and time-varying prices. In this paper we describe an XFC management system that combines an on-site battery energy storage system and an optimization application that minimizes the cost to operate the depot in light of the utility pricing programs. We have designed the optimizer specially to use fast and simple linear programming so that it can be deployed to low-cost computing platforms. We also describe how several utility pricing schemes are integrated into a single piecewise model, reducing the engineering effort to implement the optimizer in different utility environments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665419741
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 16 2020
Event2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2020 - Gold Coast, Australia
Duration: Dec 16 2020Dec 18 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2020
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityGold Coast
Period12/16/2012/18/20

Keywords

  • battery energy storage system
  • demand response
  • electric vehicles
  • extreme fast EV charging
  • time of use

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