A Dynamic Programming Based Demand Response Management of High Rise Residential Buildings using DERs and Electric Vehicles

Abstract

The vast majority of the potential electricity consumers in urban areas, are high rise residential buildings. The power requirements of these buildings, form a major portion of the power demand on the Smart Grid (SG). So, the energy management of such residential buildings would play a crucial role in reducing the burden off the grid. However, in these high rise buildings, large area is available on the rooftop and in the basement. The roof top area can be utilized for the installation of PV and wind system. Whereas, the basement area can be used for setting up of Charging Station (CS). The purpose of the CS is to facilitate the charging and discharging of the Electric Vehicles (EV’s). The batteries of the EVs’ parked in the CS can be utilized for storing and delivering of electrical energy which will help in Demand Response Management (DRM). Moreover, the PV panels, wind system and EVs batteries all are in grid connected mode. Hence, this paper proposes a novel scheme, which controls the charging and discharging of the EVs’ batteries for DRM using Dynamic Programming. The results show that controlled charging and discharging of the EVs’ batteries helped in DRM of the high rise building and power dependency on the SG has been reduced.