Electric vehicle charging strategy based on a dynamic programming algorithm

Increased number of electric vehicles (EV) in the near future brings some evident challenges. Electricity producers and managers both are thinking about new solutions to reduce the upcoming problems. Peak shaving and valley filling of the daily load profile (DLP) as a potential solution has been discussed in this paper. Thanks to a dynamic programming algorithm, a charging schedule is dedicated to each vehicle. A management of charging/discharging/no charging has been proposed by this algorithm, with the aim of peak demand reduction and load leveling.