Using EV charging control to provide building load flexibility.


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Authors
Bhundar, Harsimrat Singh 
Golab, Lukas 
Keshav, Srinivasan 
Abstract

Buildings are responsible for a significant fraction of the overall electrical load. Given the increasing penetration of renewables into the generation mix, it is important to make building loads flexible, to better match the variability in generation. Of course, building loads can be made arbitrarily flexible using sufficient stationary storage, but this comes at considerable cost. In this paper, we investigate how to reduce this cost by exploiting electric vehicle (EV) charging control for unidirectional and bidirectional charging. Specifically, we design a model-predictive control algorithm to reshape building load to match a specified load shape. In realistic settings and for two use cases, we investigate the degree to which the amount of stationary storage is reduced using EV charging control. In both cases, we find that our controller reduces the need for stationary storage compared to existing solutions. Moreover, bidirectional EV charging control substantially reduces the required amount of stationary storage.

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Funder: Natural Resources Canada; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000159


Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000038

Keywords
Building load shaping, Charging control, Model-predictive control
Journal Title
Energy Inform
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Journal ISSN
2520-8942
2520-8942
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC