Stochastic optimization framework for online scheduling of an EV charging station in a residential place with photovoltaics and energy storage system

House and building energy management systems (HEMS) are becoming key when it comes to assure grid stability and to offer flexibility. At the same time, energy systems technology has evolved to enable energy storage systems and electric vehicles to be managed together with local generated energy taking into consideration the preferences of the household owner. Contributing to this tendency, this work presents a stochastic optimization platform (SOFW) for optimal control using dynamic programming and stochastic optimization models. A stochastic optimization model involving a household composed of photovoltaics, energy storage system and an electric vehicle is designed and tested within SOFW. The uncertainties of the plug-in time and state of charge of the battery of the electric vehicle are modeled using a Markovian process and a Monte-Carlo simulation. The results showed that the proposed stochastic optimization model can be solved using dynamic programming and deployed as a continuous optimal control within SOFW. The system will be deployed shortly in Italy within one use case of the Storage 4 Grid (S4G) project.