A simulation environment for electric vehicle charging infrastructures and load coordination

Abstract

The rollout of electric vehicles substantially changes the requirements for current power grid infrastructures. The high power demand of fast recharge stations in combination with a high risk of simultaneity leads to the necessity of extended ICT integration into the energy distribution process. This paper describes ongoing research on a simulation framework for modeling the communication processes of load coordination scenarios for (fast-) recharge stations. First results are presented for a fair distribution algorithm in a manageable scenario with simultaneously charging electric vehicles in order to validate the simulation environment.