Autonomously Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Chargers for Grid Services

As part of a sustainable power system, a synergy between electric mobility and renewable energy sources (RESs) can play a crucial role on mitigating the nature of RESs and defer costly grid upgrades via smart-charging. This paper presents a distributed autonomous control architecture for electric vehicle (EV) chargers and a clustering method for charging coordination. The architecture framework is detailed depending on the number of chargers and specific location properties. Moreover, the framework unveils the communication, measurement and power flow. The aforementioned approach aims at simplifying the overall charging experience for the EV owners while coupling it with a healthy grid behavior. The proposed control architecture is simulated on a prosumer case with two EVs. The performance of the controller is considerably affected by observability capabilities of current smart-meters. Faster measurement cycles of smart-meters can reduce the overshoot time span but not prevent it.