ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the elements of interaction between Electric Vehicles (EV) and the smart grid, and presents a dynamic scheduling process for EVs charging at home when a pricing policy such as time-of-use pricing is used. It also presents a scheduling scheme that minimizes energy load peaks while taking into account constraints, including maximum neighborhood charging capacity, bounded scheduling time intervals, variable prices for charging over time, and a random arrival of vehicles each requiring a maximum overall price threshold for charging. The chapter describes the elements of interaction between EVs and the smart grid and explores a particular case study of interaction between electric vehicles and the smart grid, the proposed scheduling process. It examines the electricity load scheduling problem with time-of-use pricing. Only some research so far has looked into the design of protocols related to the scheduling of EVs charging in the smart grid.
