Coordinated planning of distribution network containing charging station and distributed generation

The jointly accessing of distributed generation and electric vehicle charging stations to the distribution network has a significant impact on operation and planning. A comprehensive coordinated planning method is proposed, with which the optimized synthetic planning can be realized including sitting and sizing of distributed generation, position and capacity of charging station, and construction and retrofit of distribution network. Considering environmental factors, randomness of resources and load, the coordinated programming model of distribution network is presented. The objective is to minimize stochastic expected value of costs about investment, operation, maintenance and environment, and the model is solved by improved genetic algorithm. A radial distribution network for expansion is selected as the example. Simulation results show that the economic and environment benefits are effectively improved by the coordinated planning, and planning scheme obtained is more reasonable.