Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

ISSN 2196-5625 CN 32-1884/TK

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Charging Scheduling for Household Electric Vehicles in Active Distribution Network
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1.College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2.Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2021ZD0112700) and the Key Science and Technology Project of China Southern Power Grid Corporation (No. 090000k52210134).

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    Abstract:

    With the booming of electric vehicles (EVs) across the world, their increasing charging demands pose challenges to urban distribution networks. Particularly, due to the further implementation of time-of-use prices, the charging behaviors of household EVs are concentrated on low-cost periods, thus generating new load peaks and affecting the secure operation of the medium- and low-voltage grids. This problem is particularly acute in many old communities with relatively poor electricity infrastructure. In this paper, a novel two-stage charging scheduling scheme based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed to improve the power quality and achieve optimal charging scheduling of household EVs simultaneously in active distribution network (ADN) during valley period. In the first stage, the optimal charging profiles of charging stations are determined by solving the optimal power flow with the objective of eliminating peak-valley load differences. In the second stage, an intelligent agent based on proximal policy optimization algorithm is developed to dispatch the household EVs sequentially within the low-cost period considering their discrete nature of arrival. Through powerful approximation of neural network, the challenge of imperfect knowledge is tackled effectively during the charging scheduling process. Finally, numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme exhibits great improvement in relieving peak-valley differences as well as improving voltage quality in the ADN.

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  • Received:July 27,2022
  • Revised:December 28,2022
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  • Online: November 16,2023
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