Design of an autonomous intelligent Demand-Side Management system using stochastic optimisation evolutionary algorithms

NEUROCOMPUTING

卷:170

Article; Proceedings Paper

Galvan-Lopez, Edgar¹  Curran, Tom²  McDermott, James³  Carroll, Paula³ 

[1] Univ Paris 11, INRIA Saclay & LRI, TAO Project, Orsay, France

[2] Univ Dublin Trinity Coll, Sch Comp Sci & Stat, Dublin 2, Ireland

[3] Univ Coll Dublin, Lochlann Quinn Sch Business, Management Informat Syst, Dublin, Ireland

关键词: Demand-Side Management systems;    Evolutionary algorithms;    Electric vehicles;    Peak-to-average ratio;    Electricity costs;    Smart grid time-of-use pricing;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.neucom.2015.03.093

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Demand-Side Management systems aim to modulate energy consumption at the customer side of the meter using price incentives. Current incentive schemes allow consumers to reduce their costs, and from the point of view of the supplier play a role in load balancing, but do not lead to optimal demand patterns. In the context of charging fleets of electric vehicles, we propose a centralised method for setting overnight charging schedules. This method uses evolutionary algorithms to automatically search for optimal plans, representing both the charging schedule and the energy drawn from the grid at each time-step. In successive experiments, we optimise for increased state of charge, reduced peak demand, and reduced consumer costs. In simulations, the centralised method achieves improvements in performance relative to simple models of non-centralised consumer behaviour. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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