Provision of frequency regulation by a residential microgrid integrating PVs, energy storage and electric vehicle

The scope of this paper is to develop an energy management system (EMS) in order to integrate Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology in a residential scale microgrid. The aforementioned configuration embodies a Photovoltaic plant, a domestic energy storage device, household loads, and a plug-in Electric Vehicle which is connected to the system through an off-board DC charger. The EMS developed ensures a) maximum energy efficiency of the household consumer, b) direct solar power use and c) customer driving needs satisfaction by providing frequency regulation to the utility grid through an autonomous distributed control. Herein, a residential microgrid set up is modeled via Matlab/Simulink and the effectiveness of the control scheme is demonstrated for the considered case studies.