Optimal management of electric vehicles in a building environment: real cloud development

The increased adoption of electric Vehicles (EVs) is creating new challenges for building management. The massified use of EVs will significantly increase power consumption in buildings, potentially making it unable to answer to all encompassed loads due to insufficient available power. In the proposed paper, a pilot in the scope of the EV4EU project is described considering the management of EVs that are connected to a real building in the Azores, Portugal. Herein, a management platform is responsible for the control of two Electric Vehicles Supply Equipment (EVSEs) with Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) capability. The building also has a solar Photovoltaic (PV) system which is mainly used for self-consumption. The main results indicate that the proposed EVSE management platform successfully controls the EV charging/discharging, maximizing the state of charge of the battery through intelligent decisions based on optimization processes.