HIL based Coordinated Control of grid interfaced Distributed Generation assisted Battery Swapping Station

The large-scale world-wide adoption of Electric Vehicles as a mode of transportation is predicted to create stress on the already loaded power supply network. As such continued efforts in the area of distributed generation assisted charging stations are in full-swing. The paper investigates the outcomes of utilizing a PV assisted Battery Swapping Station to combat and alleviate simultaneously the issues of overburden and energy storage. A BSS can be tethered not only to provide battery swapping services to EVs but also provide for grid support, energy storage, ancillary services, etc. A grid interfaced PV assisted BSS system and its functioning in the smart grid environment has been proposed considering the system has a reliable and secure communication infrastructure. The multiple roles of the BSS and its coordinated functioning with the PV and the grid is examined under various test scenarios. The hardware prototyping of the control strategies for the inverter and the BSS is realized using Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 evaluation kit. The simulation and the hardware co-simulation results are presented to validate the efficacy of the proposed control scheme.