ABSTRACT
The charging of an Electric Vehicle (EV) can be scheduled with some degrees of freedom, as it can be often postponed and/or reduced for a significant period with small inconvenience to the owners. The exact shape of the electrical load pattern depends then on a number of factors, such as the location, the day of the week, the season or the weather. Control Architectures Commonly three control architectures are employed for charging plug-in EVs there are: Centralized control, Distributed control and Decentralized control. A first concern regarding the communication aspects, is that exchanging large amounts of data may lead to considerable communication and computation delays, especially for large scale systems like power networks. A second concern involves privacy issues and data protection. Most charging schemes exploit some additional forecast information, such as daily demand predictions or energy requirements of the EVs.
