Electric Vehicle Charging Station incorporating with an Energy Management and Demand Response Technique

Abstract

A study of Demand Response (DR) function and Energy management for an electrical vehicle (EV) charger is presented in this paper. The proposed technique is to prevent the electrical system within the rated power by controlling electric vehicle chargers loads to the electrical system. A power management method for limiting the charging current and charging time by using state of charge (SoC) as a priority point index is developed. The power management method is also developed as a calculation algorithm for determining the charging current limit rating for electric vehicle chargers. The simulation model is also developed for validating a DR management function of the electric vehicle charger according to Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand (PEA) load characteristic data. The results show that the proposed DR function can manage the charging current of each electric vehicle charger appropriately. Also. the proposed technique can prevent the rated power demand of the transformer distribution. The study illustrates that this method is an effective protection for the distribution transformer and can be able to apply as a DR function to manage electrical energy more efficiently.