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Conference Paper

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Publication Details

Orcas 2016: International Conference on Energy Conversion & Storage. Friday Harbor, WA 2016

Abstract

With the trends encouraged by governments and political parties to increase the adoption of Renewable Energy Sources (RES); solar energy, and in particular photovoltaics (PV), is poised as an excellent candidate to offset the energy requirements of charging stations (PV-CS) for Electric Vehicles (BEV). This work presents a 10.5 kW Transient System Simulation (TRNSYS) model of a university campus PV-CS to determine sizing as well to determine the best operating strategies for a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The economical optimization model is formulated via theoretical approach adopting the Simple Payback Period (SPP) indicator. The optimization takes into account the campus transportation load profile while BESS is used to attain the shortest SPP gain. The results, from both theoretical as well as simulation approach, reveal that leveraging the campus BEVs charging via BESS based PV-CS scheme has the potential to reduce the energy demand from the grid, and to maximize self-consumption efficiency.

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Technological University Dublin(DIT)

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