Optimal electric vehicles consumption management at parking garages

Abstract

This paper is focused on the electric power management required on garages where plug-in vehicles are located. As the Electric Vehicle technology becomes more efficient and sophisticated, parking infrastructures should be analyzed as new potential high concentrated electric consumption nodes. Simulation techniques have been implemented to analyze possible benefits of implementing a consumption management control on these types of infrastructures. Power capacity requirements and savings on energy consumption, capacity costs and non supplied energy penalties are some outputs extracted from a 50 plug-in vehicles case study.