IEEE Access (Jan 2021)

Strategy of Large-Scale Electric Vehicles Absorbing Renewable Energy Abandoned Electricity Based on Master-Slave Game

  • Dunnan Liu,
  • Lingxiang Wang,
  • Weiye Wang,
  • Hua Li,
  • Mingguang Liu,
  • Xiaofeng Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3091725
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
pp. 92473 – 92482

Abstract

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The rapid development of renewable energy power has improved global energy and environmental problems. However, with the high volatility of renewable energy, it is an important challenge to guarantee the consumption of renewable energy and the reliable operation of high percentage renewable energy power systems. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a tracking absorption strategy for renewable energy based on the interaction between the supply side and the demand side, which adjusts the charging process of electric vehicles (EVs) through electric vehicle aggregator (EVA) to realize the tracking absorption of renewable energy abandoned electricity. In view of this process, we analyze the interaction among power grid, EVA and renewable energy generation (REG) as well as their market characteristics. The master-slave game model of EVA and REG was constructed considering the charging behavior characteristics of EVs and the output characteristics of REGs. Then the model solving strategy based on soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithm is proposed, and the REG pricing strategy and EVA scheduling strategy are calculated to optimize the mutual benefits. The case analysis shows that, under the same scale of electric vehicles, the proposed method can promote about 93.89% of the power abandonment consumption of wind power system, 96.00% of the photovoltaic system, and 97.41% of the wind-solar system. This strategy reduces the electricity purchase cost of EVA, promotes the interaction among renewable energy, vehicles and power grid, and improves the utilization efficiency of renewable energy.

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