Power Management and Control of Grid Connected Microgrid With Inbuilt EV Charging for Residential Homes

In the near future, residential homes are expected to have a grid connected microgrid structure with photovoltaic (PV) based autonomous power generation and electric vehicles (EVs). The capacity utilization of grid connected converter in a microgrid is minimum when PV power is less, especially during night time. On the other hand, the current practice of charging electric vehicles with a dedicated EV charger increase the expenditure. In this reference, this paper presents a power management and control of a grid connected microgrid with inbuilt EV charging feature. With the proposed system the utilization of grid connected converter can be increased and expenditure on EV charger can be saved. The proposed system is simulated in OPAL-RT-OP4510, a real time digital simulator and validated through results.