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Abstract — This paper presents an optimal Energy benefits for EVs’ owners on charging/discharging management
Management Strategy (EMS) to optimize Grid / PV / EV hybrid was proposed [14]. Peak shaving with EVs is also implemented
system in Smart Building with a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) concept and [15] proves the possible profits in decrease of home peak
and so bidirectional capability of the vehicle. The aims of the load and customer costs. Usage EVs as UPS is a field that offers
multiobjective optimization are to maximize the selfconsumption good opportunities; this has been proved in references [16-17].
of the solar production and to optimal charging the vehicle Charging station of EVs is as well an important strategic subject
together. Linear Programming method is used to solve the in the near future. In this thematic, reference [18] shows the
optimization problem. The use cases results show the great profits by presenting a strategy that allows EVs to share their
economic profitability potential of the studied system.
battery stored energy with each other under the coordination of
Keywords — energy management strategy, Grid / PV / EV hybrid
an aggregator. Finally, including EVs management into the
system, linear programming, multiobjective optimization, optimal Smart Home with solar production – Photovoltaic (PV), storage
charging, selfconsumption, smart building, vehicle-to-grid. system and household appliances is a very emerging field [19-
25]. In this paper, a new approach is introduced. This consists to
I. INTRODUCTION optimize Grid / PV / EV hybrid system in Smart Building with
In recent years, developed countries promote the Electric V2G concept and so bidirectional capability of the vehicle. The
Vehicles (EVs) which are thriving. Many car manufacturers aims are to maximize the selfconsumption of the solar
offer plug-in EVs and since some time, there is an emerging production and to optimal charging the vehicle together. More
bidirectional EVs market. These are strategic because they allow information are available in the next part. Part III presented the
to use the batteries for multiple purposes. results. This paper end with conclusions in part IV.
The research activities on the interaction EV/Grid field are II. SYSTEM AND ALGORITHM FORMULATION
spread since many years and evolve in stages. First, the impacts This part presents the operating principle of the system and
on residential [1] and on distribution electric grids [2-3] were the formulation of the optimal algorithm which is in the same
assessed. Several studies have quantified the life duration losses way of [26] thinking. Additional constraints related the battery
of high- and low-voltage transformers [4-5] caused by the (i.e. the Electric Vehicle in our study) are available in this
charging of EVs. Secondly, significant research work were studied system and more, the formulation is closed to avoid
carried out to minimize impacts [6-11] with centralized, wasted energy. As shown in Fig. 1, the energy flows are
decentralized, on-line and off-line strategies. Research topics on multiple:
the EV/Grid are now focused on Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and
Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) concepts with various aims based 1\ PV to Grid: solar production can be injected into the grid,
mainly on economic aspect. In [12], EVs are used to support the 2\ PV to Load: selfconsumption of the solar production,
grid frequency thanks to V2G. In this same theme, EVs are also 3\ PV to EV: vehicle is charging thanks to the PV,
used to mitigate potential overloads in the distribution system
4\ EV to Load: vehicle feeds the building consumption
and minimize charging costs together [13]. Grid components are
still at the heart of the research activities. As such, a centralized 5\ EV to Grid: vehicle injects into the grid
model to co-optimize the transformer loss-of-life with the 6\ Grid to Load: standard operation
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Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) concept is applied here and so the ܱܵܥሺݐሻ ൌ ܱܵܥሺ݅ݐሻ ൫ܲ՜ா ሺݐሻ ൈ ߟ௧௧ି ൯
vehicle has a bidirectional embedded charger. The vehicle can െ ൫ܲா՜ௗ ሺݐሻ ൈ ߟ௧௧ି௦ ൯
be charged only from the solar production. This operating
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principle is intentional to ensure green charging. Of course in
view of this specificity, we consider an integration of this whole
hybrid system in the tertiary area where the vehicle is plugged The system under study and the constraints are represented
and available during the day. We can easily consider a small by linear equations. That is why the Linear Programming was
society/start-up where the CEO integrates a PV system on the chosen to solve the optimization problem. The total number of
roof and uses an EV. For apply in residential sector, the sampling time steps is 144 for the simulation of one day. A
formulation of the optimization problem must be changed sampling time step equal to 10 minutes is the best compromise
otherwise there is a high risk that the vehicle don’t reached the between precision and calculation time.
full charge (or the desired high level State-of-Charge – SOC at The Linprog tool provided by Matlab has been used to solve
the next use). Usually the day ends quickly (i.e. also the solar the optimization problem [27]. The formulation is represented
production) after the home arrival time in the evening. by (9). Interior-point method has been employed [28].
The strategy proposed in this work allows to maximize the ܣή ݔ ܾǡ
selfconsumption of the solar production and to optimal charging ݉݅݊ሺ݉ܽݔሻ ݂ ் ݐ݄ܽݐ݄ܿݑݏ ݔ൝ ݍ݁ܣή ݔൌ ܾ݁ݍǡ ሺͻሻ
the EV together. The tool presented is generic/open and the user ௫
݈ܾ ݔ ܾݑǤ
can set the values of the inputs as he wishes (Fig. 2). To facing
the aims, the formulation of the objective function is as follows:
The Coulomb metric method (which is very simple and the
௧
most popular) has been used for the dynamic monitoring of the
battery SOC (10) [29]-[30]-[31].
ܬሺݐሻ ൌ ቂቀܧ௨௬ ൈ ܲீௗ՜ௗ ሺݐሻቁ െ ൫ܧௌ ൈ ܲ՜ீௗ ሺݐሻ൯
௧
ܫ௧௧௬ ሺݐሻ
ൈ ݀ݐ
െ ൫ܧௌ ൈ ߣ ൈ ܲா՜ீௗ ሺݐሻ൯ቃሺͳሻ ܱܵܥሺݐሻ ൌ ܱܵܥሺ ݐെ ͳሻ ͵ͲͲ ൈ ͳͲͲሾΨሿሺͳͲሻ
ܳ ሺݐሻ
The algorithm minimizes the energy supplied from the grid III. RESULTS
coupled with its tariff, denoted EBuy. It maximizes selling process This part presents the results where four cases are explained
through sale energy into the grid one the hand from the PV and (Figs. 4 to 9). Table I summarizes the values of the parameters
on the other hand from the storage system. These are coupled for each case, the return on investment time and also the
with the feed-in tariff, denoted ESell. λ variable is introduced to selfconsumption rate, denoted ξ (11). Return on Investment time
avoid the storage in the battery and then injection into the grid periods are presented for each case. Fig. 3 presents the building
(however in some cases this can happen). This ensures that the daily load profile and the daily solar production used during
energy stored in the battery of the vehicle is mainly used to these four cases.
supply the load. λ variable requires a high value, for example, 2 ௧ ௧
times greater than the daily peak production of the PV. ௧ ܲ՜ௗ ሺݐሻ ௧ ܲா՜ௗ ሺݐሻ
Ɍൌ ௧
݀ݐሺͳͳሻ
The algorithm formulation includes inequalities constraints ௧ ܲௗ ሺݐሻ
related the max charge/discharge powers of the EV battery (2-3)
and the max power injection into the grid (4). If ξ = 100% then all the load is supplied from the hybrid system
ܲா՜ௗ ሺݐሻ ܲா՜ீௗ ሺݐሻ ܲ௧௧ି௦ିெ௫ ሺʹሻ EV/PV; If ξ = 0% then the grid supplied all the load.
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Fig. 3. Daily Load Profiles used in the use cases Fig. 6. Simulation results: use case 3
Fig. 4. Simulation results: use case 1 Fig. 7. Simulation results: use case 4
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