Demand Side Management Technique to Optimally Schedule Electric Vehicle Loads in Smart Grid

Abstract

Demand-side management (DSM) in smart grids helps the problem of reducing peak load of utilities during certain hourly periods. Based on DSM techniques, peak load hours can be equalized to non-peak load hours therefore users will have less bill payments. In this paper optimal scheduling of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is done based on an objective function formulated to minimize the load variations. Firstly, hourly consumption of load during a day at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation is considered, EVs load is assumed and flattened the aggregated load curve by optimally scheduling the EVs during off peak hours.