Grid integration for electric vehicle and photovoltaic panel for a smart home

Abstract

Atmospheric pollution is exponentially increasing due to excessive carbon emissions from vehicles driven by fossil fuels has encouraged the growth of Electric Vehicles. Despite the various environmental and economic benefits of Electric Vehicles, its charging will introduce enormous technical challenges on the existing network operation as the units consumed by a vehicle in a day is very high. It is almost four times that of units consumed by a typical residential load. Therefore with the penetration of Electric Vehicle into the market, power generated in India by non-renewable energy resources cannot meet the ever rising power demand of the country. The objective of this project is to implement a module which gives effective control logic for the integration of renewable energy resource and the electric vehicle with the utility. This involves a battery charging system which during off peak hours charges the battery and in peak hours supplies power to residential load. This paper also involves the study of installation of residential photovoltaic panels to the existing grid system along with Electric Vehicles. The system is made more lucrative with effective load curtailment in different day-to-day scenarios.