Planning the Development of Fast Charging Stations Considering the Multi-Stage Expansion of the Urban Distribution Network by the Linear Programming Method

Subject Areas : Power Engineering

Moaiad Mohseni ¹ (Khuzestan Regional Electric Company, Ahvaz, Iran)
Atiyeh Golmohamadi ² (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tehran Center Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad Amin Bahramian ³ (Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Arak University, Arak, Iran)
Reza Mohammadi Nik ⁴ (Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
Vahid Davatgaran ⁵ (Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2024-05-08 Accepted : 2024-08-13 Published : 2025-09-21

Keywords: Distribution network, Electric vehicle, Fast charging station, Network development, Renewable resources,

Abstract :

In recent years, global warming and climate change have been one of the most controversial and challenging issues for governments, companies and international conventions. The main cause of this warming is the upward trend of population growth in the last few decades and then the increase in the use of fossil fuels for energy production and transportation. Therefore, most of the governments in their grand plans are required to remove fossil fuel vehicles and replace them with electric vehicles. Therefore, with the increase in the use of electric vehicles in cities, the discussion of planning for electric power consumption by them and their correct placement, their number and location has become an important issue for operators and designers. In this article, in order to plan the development of the distribution network in the presence of electric vehicle charging stations and renewable production sources, a solution method based on integer linear programming is used. The purpose of this problem is to reduce the costs of building the network, substations, charging stations, building renewable resources, capacitor banks and buying electricity from the network in the long term. The proposed method has been implemented on an 18-bus network in three scenarios, and the results show that the presence of electric vehicle charging stations in the network can be beneficial to some extent and increase reliability and reduce network costs.

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