Multi-objective economic dispatch of a microgrid considering electric vehicle and transferable load

In order to investigate the impact of electric vehicles' charging-discharging behaviour and demand side response resources on the economic operation of photovoltaic grid-connected microgrid system, a multi-objective model of microgrid economic dispatching with electric vehicles, transferable load and other distributed generations (diesel engines and energy storage unit) is proposed in this paper. The model takes the comprehensive operating cost of microgrid, the utilization rate of photovoltaic energy and the power fluctuation between the microgrid and main grid as objectives. Moreover, four different cases of microgrid economic dispatch considering electric vehicles and transferable load are put forward, which are electric vehicles' orderly charging and discharging and transferable load participating in demand response in Case 1, electric vehicles' charging randomly and the transferable load participating in demand response in Case 2, electric vehicles orderly charging and discharging and transferable load not participating in demand response in Case 3, electric vehicles' charging randomly and the transferable load not participating in the demand response in Case 4. Multi-objective Seeker Optimization Algorithm and the method of fuzzy membership function are applied in this study to obtain the optimal results. The simulation analysis shows that the orderly charging-discharging behaviour of electric vehicles and the participation of transferable load can effectively improve the economic costs, efficiency and security of microgrid economic operation.