Dynamic Tariff Adjustment for Electric Vehicle Charging in Renewable-Rich Smart Grids: A Multi-Factor Optimization Approach to Load Balancing and Cost Efficiency
作者:Dawei Wang, Xi Chen, Xiulan Liu, Yongda Li, Zhengguo Piao, Haoxuan Li · 发表于:Energies · 年份:2025 · DOI:10.3390/en18164283 · 被引用次数:5 · 研究领域:Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure、Transportation and Mobility Innovations、Advanced Battery Technologies Research
The widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced substantial challenges to electricity pricing, grid stability, and renewable energy integration. This paper proposes a real-time pricing optimization framework for large-scale EV charging networks incorporating renewable intermittency, demand elasticity, and infrastructure constraints within a high-dimensional optimization model. The core objective is to dynamically determine spatiotemporal electricity prices that simultaneously reduce system peak load, improve renewable energy utilization, and minimize user charging costs. A rigorous mathematical formulation is developed integrating over 40 system-level constraints, including power balance, transmission capacity, renewable curtailment, carbon targets, voltage regulation, demand-side flexibility, social participation, and cyber resilience. Real-time electricity prices are treated as dynamic decision variables influenced by charging station utilization, elasticity response curves, and the marginal cost of renewable and grid-supplied electricity. The problem is solved over 96 time intervals using a hybrid solution approach, with benchmark comparisons against mixed-integer programming (MILP) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based baselines. A comprehensive case study is conducted on a 500-station EV charging network serving 10,000 vehicles integrated with a modified IEEE 118-bus grid model and 800 MW of variable renewable energy. Historical charging data wi...