PV-EV Integrated Home Energy Management Considering Residential Occupant Behaviors

Xuebo Liu, Yingying Wu and Hongyu Wu
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Xuebo Liu: Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Yingying Wu: Department of Interior Design and Fashion Studies, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Hongyu Wu: Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-20

Abstract: Rooftop photovoltaics (PV) and electrical vehicles (EV) have become more economically viable to residential customers. Most existing home energy management systems (HEMS) only focus on the residential occupants’ thermal comfort in terms of indoor temperature and humidity while neglecting their other behaviors or concerns. This paper aims to integrate residential PV and EVs into the HEMS in an occupant-centric manner while taking into account the occupants’ thermal comfort, clothing behaviors, and concerns on the state-of-charge (SOC) of EVs. A stochastic adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) model was proposed to optimally determine the setpoints of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), occupant’s clothing decisions, and the EV’s charge/discharge schedule while considering uncertainties in the outside temperature, PV generation, and EV’s arrival SOC. The nonlinear and nonconvex thermal comfort model, EV SOC concern model, and clothing behavior model were holistically embedded in the ADP-HEMS model. A model predictive control framework was further proposed to simulate a residential house under the time of use tariff, such that it continually updates with optimal appliance schedules decisions passed to the house model. Cosimulations were carried out to compare the proposed HEMS with a baseline model that represents the current operational practice. The result shows that the proposed HEMS can reduce the energy cost by 68.5% while retaining the most comfortable thermal level and negligible EV SOC concerns considering the occupant’s behaviors.

Keywords: home energy management; clothing behavior; electrical vehicle; thermal comfort; heating, ventilation, air conditioning; photovoltaics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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