Print Email Facebook Twitter The Potential of an EV and Intelligent Load Management for a Smart home with Integrated PV and Battery Title The Potential of an EV and Intelligent Load Management for a Smart home with Integrated PV and Battery Author Huijbregts, Mart (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Bauer, P. (mentor) Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (mentor) Cvetkovic, M. (graduation committee) Bandyopadhyay, S. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Electrical Engineering | Electrical Power Engineering Date 2019-04-15 Abstract With the increase in home energy consumption due to the electrification of house heating and charging of electric vehicles (EVs), the self-sufficiency and reduced impact on the utility grid from a house has become a more exciting topic. In combination with the price decrease for lithium-ion batteries the potential for storing PV generated energy in batteries has become more beneficial. However, the price for batteries is still a large part of the total investment of a PV system with home battery. Correct sizing of the home battery and PV installation is essential to reduce investment costs and as a result a decrease in payback time. Besides the correct sizing of the home battery and PV installation, these two parameters are also influenced when using an EV in the energy management system of the house. EVs have large batteries (thirty to hundred kWh) to give the EVs an extented driving range. The average EV owner does not use the full capacity of the battery on a regular day. The unused capacity of an EV battery has the potential to reduce the home battery capacity when used as a storage facility. To reduce the impact of the upcoming changes in house consumption, this thesis investigates load shifting in combination with a charged EV as addition to the house with integrated PV and battery. The results show that a charged EV can have a positive contribution to a house on grid energy autonomy, peak shaving capability and electricity cost. In combination with load shifting the benefits are further increased. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:23cccc9d-6538-41e4-98fb-92a55591ac9f Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Mart Huijbregts Files PDF Master_Thesis_Huijbregts_Mart.pdf 2.42 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:23cccc9d-6538-41e4-98fb-92a55591ac9f/datastream/OBJ/view