Coordinated Planning of Charging Swapping Stations and Active Distribution Network

This paper investigates the coordinated planning of electric vehicle (EV) charging swapping stations (CSSs), also called charging and swapping facilities, together with the development of the active distribution network (ADN) that includes distributed generation. The coordinated planning approach is based on the application of a specifically developed spatial-temporal load forecasting analysis of both plug-in EVs (PEVs) and swapping EVs (SEVs). The coordinated planning approach is formulated as a mathematical programming optimization model that provides the location and sizing of new CSSs, the best AND topology, the required distributed generation and substation capacities. The model is solved by the CPLEX. The characteristics and performances of the proposed approach are tested with a reference to a realistic case study.