Optimal Design of Microgrid with Demand Side Management in Presence of Electric Vehicle

Microgrid is widely known for its reliability, robustness, and assimilation of renewable energy resources. A standalone microgrid is a good solution for the electrification of remote places. In this paper, a smart standalone microgrid system has been designed optimally. Demand side management (DSM) has been performed to manage the elastic loads considering the contributions of inelastic loads associated with this microgrid for economic operation. The optimal sizes of solar PV, wind turbine, diesel generator, battery energy storage (BES), and converter of this microgrid system have been decided using HOMER software. In the past few years, the transportation sector is shifting towards electric vehicle (EV) to reduce pollution. Therefore, the penetration of EV in microgrid has been considered for this work too. Two different DSM schemes have been proposed and compared in terms of microgrid's planning. Evolutionary based optimization techniques have been employed to solve the DSM problem.