Small Hydro based Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in Hilly Areas

In this paper, the main focus is to develop a small hydroelectric charging station for rural area. There is a cage induction generator used in conventional hydro generation systems, requires charging high reactive power and has poor power quality in transient and steady state conditions. This charging infrastructure is presented for an uninterrupted electrification also provides power to the local loads in remote areas. For small hydro, excitation capacitors are used with self-excited induction generators (SEIG). In order to extract fundamental component of load current, unified adaptive linear neuron-based control for synchronizing and generating the reference current. A phase and frequency-dependent reference current synchronization algorithm is developed to enhance the properties of the reference current by using a modified unified adaptive linear neuron- method that also extracts the desired amplitude of the reference current. The response of hybrid charging system is presented at balanced/unbalanced load.