Energy Management Strategy: Microgrid Integrated with Hybrid PV-T, EV, and Battery

This study presents an analysis of a microgrid with the integration of photovoltaic glass (PV-glass), hybrid thermal photovoltaic (HPV-T), and a battery as a storage system. Also, as a novel energy management strategy, PV-glass (car body PV) is used to maintain the state of charge (SOC) of an EV’s battery; on the other hand, in this paper, V2G is used as an energy management strategy. This topology covers the demand of the house on the longest day of the year, in summer, with the assumption that the battery bank is initially discharged. Furthermore, genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are used to calculate the optimal cost of HPV-T and PV-glass. So, the optimal sizes of HPV-T and PV-glass are $10\mathrm{m}^{2}$ and $7.3\mathrm{m}^{2}$, respectively.