Optimal Simultaneous Allocation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Capacitors in Radial Distribution Network Considering Reliability

Abstract

The popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) has sparked a greater awareness of carbon emissions and climate impact. Urban mobility expansion and EV adoption have led to an increased infrastructure for electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs), impacting radial distribution networks (RDNs). To reduce the impact of voltage drop, the increased power loss (PL), lower system interruption costs, and proper allocation and positioning of the EVCSs and capacitors are necessary. This paper focuses on the allocation of EVCS and capacitor installations in RDN by maximizing net present value (NPV), considering the reduction in energy losses and interruption costs. As a part of the analysis considering reliability, several compensation coefficients are used to evaluate failure rates and pinpoint those that will improve NPV. To locate the best nodes for EVCSs and capacitors, the hybrid of grey wolf optimization (GWO) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) (HGWO_PSO) and the hybrid of PSO and Cuckoo search (CS) (HPSO_CS) algorithms are proposed, forming a combination of GWO, PSO, and CS optimizations. The impact of EVCSs on NPV is also investigated in this paper. The effectiveness of the proposed optimization algorithms is validated on an IEEE 33-bus RDN.