Abstract
Electric Vehicle (EV) technology has developed rapidly in recent years, with the result that increasing levels of EV penetration are expected on electrical grids in the near future. The increasing electricity demand due to EVs is expected to provide many challenges for grid companies, and it is expected that it will be necessary to reinforce the current electrical grid infrastructure to cater for increasing loads at distribution level. However, by harnessing the power of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technologies, groups of EVs could be harnessed to provide ancillary services to the grid. Current unbalance occurs at distribution level when currents are unbalanced between each of the phases. In this paper a distributed consensus algorithm is used to coordinate EV charging in order to minimise current unbalance. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is effective in rebalancing phase currents.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | World Congress |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014 |
| Editors | Edward Boje, Xiahou Xia |
| Place of Publication | Cape Town |
| Publisher | International Federation of Automatic Control |
| Pages | 3146-3151 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-902823-62-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2014 |
| Event | 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2014) - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 24 Aug 2014 → 29 Aug 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2014) |
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| Country | South Africa |
| City | Cape Town |
| Period | 24/08/2014 → 29/08/2014 |