We consider the problem of controlling the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) connected to a
single charging station that follows an aggregated power setpoint from a main controller of
the local distribution grid. To cope with volatile resources such as load or distributed
generation, this controller manages in real time the flexibility of the energy resources in the
distribution grid and uses the charging station to adapt its power consumption. The
aggregated power setpoint might exhibit rapid variations due to other volatile resources of …

An electric vehicle (EV) charging method which considers the EVs heterogeneity, taking into
account the absence of any information about future arrivals and departures, and of the
amount of time any charging will take. The method further considers both switch on and off
possibilities and not an arbitrarily small minimum charging power. In order to achieve all
these objectives, the invention defines novel metrics and uses them to construct a dedicated
optimization problem. As the charging power is discontinuous, the minimum charging power …