Multi-Period Optimization of Energy Demand Control for Electric Vehicles in Unbalanced Electrical Power Systems Considering the Center Load Distance of Charging Station Areas

The rise of plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) impacts the energy demand of power systems. This study employed a multi-period power flow analysis on the IEEE 123 node test system, which was optimized for the installation of 6-position EV charging stations. Temporal load shifting was utilized to control the charging intervals of electric vehicles. Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) was applied to determine the optimal locations for installing EV charging stations, considering target functions, such as total energy loss, voltage unbalance factor (VUF), and center load distance. The results showed that the center load distance resulted in the optimal charging station location in the central area of the system, different from conventional considerations. The results showed that installing the charging station in the center of the load group (case 4) increased the total energy loss and VUF compared to installing it at the root of the load group (case 3) by about 2.1134 and 1.2287%, respectively. However, EVs reduced impacts during periods of system weakness. By controlling charging intervals during off-peak times (case 6), total energy loss and VUF were decreased by 4.7070 and 5.6896%, respectively, which effectively reduced energy demand during peak periods

Vertical Transportation System Power Usage: Behavioural Case Study of Regulated Buildings in Bangkok

Sustainable urban development worldwide is crucial for the development of living spaces in high-rise buildings and infrastructures, which leads to the inevitability of increased energy consumption and demand of vertical transportation systems. The evaluation of the energy consumption of transportation systems is needed to verify and analyse the power usage related to traffic demands and patterns. In addition, efficient vertical transportation systems are central to the formulation of more sustainable cities. Therefore, this trend represents a substantial portion of the overall energy consumption of the building types. The benchmarking of the energy needs of the vertical transportation systems in five different building types via the comparison of granular load profile patterns (in conjunction with population densities) to the energy consumed was conducted, and it will be used to infer some impactful design strategies for the future. This study demonstrated a systematic approach to determine the power usage patterns in vertical transportation systems by actual measurement and traffic data collection from elevator monitoring. This may be used to develop a prediction for other cases in different types of installed vertical transportation systems. Therefore, the power usage of the vertical transportation systems can be used to determine the correlation between energy consumption and load pattern based on building characteristics and the overall energy consumption of each presented system

Vertical Transportation System Power Usage: Behavioural Case Study of Regulated Buildings in Bangkok

Sustainable urban development worldwide is crucial for the development of living spaces in high-rise buildings and infrastructures, which leads to the inevitability of increased energy consumption and demand of vertical transportation systems. The evaluation of the energy consumption of transportation systems is needed to verify and analyse the power usage related to traffic demands and patterns. In addition, efficient vertical transportation systems are central to the formulation of more sustainable cities. Therefore, this trend represents a substantial portion of the overall energy consumption of the building types. The benchmarking of the energy needs of the vertical transportation systems in five different building types via the comparison of granular load profile patterns (in conjunction with population densities) to the energy consumed was conducted, and it will be used to infer some impactful design strategies for the future. This study demonstrated a systematic approach to determine the power usage patterns in vertical transportation systems by actual measurement and traffic data collection from elevator monitoring. This may be used to develop a prediction for other cases in different types of installed vertical transportation systems. Therefore, the power usage of the vertical transportation systems can be used to determine the correlation between energy consumption and load pattern based on building characteristics and the overall energy consumption of each presented system