Optimal Sizing and Placement of Solar Powered Charging Station under EV loads Penetration using Artificial Bee Colony Technique

This paper has proposed the optimization technique for finding the optimal sizing and placement of solar powered electric vehicles (EVs) charging station under EVs load using artificial bee colony (ABC), when the photovoltaic (PV) system was installed on roof of each charging station. The artificial bee colony algorithm was selected to solve the optimal condition under the proposed EV modellings on voltage dependent characteristics and PV placement modelling. On the hand, the IEEE 33 bus test system was used to express the load voltages deviation (LVD), under the minimum power loss condition as an objective function. The simulation method was divided into two conditions. With the first condition, optimal values of EV, LVD, and real power loss without PV installation had to be found. The second condition considers the first condition including optimal PV installation. The simulation results showed that, the optimal sizing of EVs, LVD, and total real power loss under the first condition were 50 kW, 0.155, and 241.547 kW, respectively. On the second condition, it was found that the optimal sizing and position of PV which was installed, measured at 250.758 kW on Bus No.15. The proposed system can reduce the LVD, and total real power loss of about 0.021 and 218.142 kW, respectively. Therefore, the study of EVs penetration with optimal PV placement on the power distribution system could be improved with voltage stability in term of voltage profiles.