Simultaneous Optimal Allocation of EVCSs and RESs Using an Improved Genetic Method

Abstract

In the last decade, with the development of the electric vehicle industry and their acceptance in human societies, the participation plan of electric vehicles in supplying the load of the network has been taken into consideration. One of the requirements of this plan is the optimal location of the stations for these vehicles in the network so that they play an effective role in the operation of the network. In this regard, along with the construction of charging and discharging stations for electric vehicles, the construction of renewable sources in the network can play a complementary role for these stations. In this paper, the effect of using renewable resources as a supplement for smart charging stations and the placement of these stations to achieve technical and economic goals have been investigated. In order to manage the demand on the side of consumers and even out the load curve, the time of use mechanism as one of the demand response programs has been considered in this study. In this research, the improved nondominant sorting genetic algorithm is proposed to solve the problem, and the results of the proposed method are also compared with the conventional genetic and particle swarm optimization algorithms. All the simulations have been done in the MATLAB software and on the IEEE 33‐bus network. Based on the obtained results, after the implementation of the proposed plan in the distribution network, the objective functions of the loss, voltage drop, and the total cost have been reduced by 13.6%, 58.7%, and 54.4%, respectively, compared to the base conditions of the network.