Decentralized Energy Management Concept for Urban Charging Hubs with Multiple V2G Aggregators

This work introduces a decentralized management concept for the urban charging hubs (UCHs) where electric vehicles (EVs) can access multiple charger clusters, each controlled by an aggregator. The given day ahead schedules (DASs) and peak power limits (PPLs) of the aggregators providing grid-to-vehicle (G2V) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services can constrain the energy supply. A suitable energy management concept is required to prevent the impact of supply limitations on EV users. In the proposed approach, an electromobility operator (EMO) acting as an authorized entity, allocates incoming EVs into the charger clusters in the UCH. The EMO executes a smart routing (SR) algorithm that jointly optimizes the cluster allocations and charging schedules, minimizing the charging cost for the given dynamic price signals produced by the aggregators. For real-time charging control (RTC) of the charging units, each aggregator solves an optimization problem with periodically updated parameters given by the DAS/PPLs and charging commitments. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed concept through comparisons against benchmark strategies without SR and RTC. The results highlight that the proposed concept reduces the deviations from the DASs and the violations of PPLs while significantly decreasing unfulfilled charging demand and unscheduled discharge from EV batteries.