arXiv Machine Learning

Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Grid Stability via Public EV Charging Flexibility

This study evaluates how flexible electric vehicle charging can improve energy efficiency and grid stability. Using real‑world data from public charging stations in Prague, the authors analyze individual and aggregated charging sessions to show that optimizing charging times reduces energy waste and grid imbalances. By aligning EV charging with periods of lower demand and higher renewable generation, they demonstrate a significant improvement in energy efficiency and a reduced need for costly system support.

arXiv AI
Jul 1

Smart charging of large fleets of Electric Vehicles: Independent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning approaches

arXiv:2606. 31347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The electrification of transportation through electric vehicles introduces new challenges for power grid management, such as increased peak demand, voltage fluctuations, line overloads, and the integration of variable renewable energy sources.

By Xavier Rate, Eloann Le Guern, Rapha\"el F\'eraud, Fatma Salem, Melissa Chiknoun, Eymeric Giabicani, Mehdi Feki, Patrick Maill\'e, Guy Camilleri, Anne Blavette, Hamid Benhamed
arXiv AI
Sep 15

LLM-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Unified Electric Vehicles-Charging Station-Grid Optimization in Public Charging Systems

The paper introduces a Large Language Model–enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning framework for optimizing electric vehicle charging, station profitability, and grid stability in public charging systems. By using an LLM to select interpretable features from IoT data and dynamically balance conflicting objectives, the approach unifies grid, EV, and station optimization in a single loop. Experiments show the method outperforms existing baselines, improving market efficiency and cutting training time by more than 70%.

By Yang Zhang, Lindong Xie, Chongyu Wang, Gaojunjie Li, Siqi Bu, Edward Chung
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

EVTradeMatch: A Mobility-Aware Multi-Objective Matching Framework for EV--EV Energy Trading

EVTradeMatch is a mobility-aware, multi-objective matching framework that coordinates peer-to-peer energy trading between electric vehicles (EVs). It uses a prediction-guided score for charging-node suitability and formulates the matching problem as a mixed-integer linear program, solved via a tailored NSGA-II algorithm. Experiments show significant gains in transferred energy, charging-node suitability, and matching coverage compared to existing proximity- and auction-based methods.

By Md. Mahfujur Rahman, Alistair Barros, Raja Jurdak, Darshika Koggalahewa
arXiv AI
Aug 26

A Behavior-Guided Online Probabilistic Forecasting Method for Electric vehicle Charging Loads

The paper introduces a behavior-guided online probabilistic forecasting framework for electric vehicle charging loads that captures both persistent station-specific patterns and recent behavioral changes through a dual-timescale representation. It employs semantic encoding of behavioral shifts to adapt forecasts in a drift-aware manner and uses a delayed-feedback mechanism to maintain temporal consistency across horizons. Experiments on ten real-world charging stations show consistent improvements over conventional models, reducing MSE and Pinball loss by up to 22.6% for 4‑hour ahead forecasts.

By Chenghan Li, Qingxiang Liu, Yinliang Xu, Yuxuan Liang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Uncovering Residential PV-EV Co-Adoption from Smart-Meter Data: Load Archetypes and Detection for Demand-Side Planning

The paper presents a two-part workflow for analyzing smart‑meter data to uncover patterns of residential co‑adoption of photovoltaic (PV) systems and electric vehicles (EVs). First, dynamic time warping k‑means clustering identifies distinct daily import/export archetypes for PV‑only, EV‑only, co‑adopters, and neither groups, revealing a midday‑centered export pattern for many co‑adopters. Second, a bidirectional LSTM model trained on 21‑day windows achieves high detection performance (AUROC 0.991, macro‑F1 0.906) for PV/EV activity, outperforming tabular baselines and remaining robust across labeling rules and temporal splits.

By Jack Zheng, Hao Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 21

CityLearn v3: A Configurable Simulation and Evaluation Framework for Realistic Control Studies of Renewable Energy Communities

CityLearn v3 is a configurable simulation and evaluation framework designed for realistic control studies of renewable energy communities (RECs). It models dynamic participation, equipment availability, service deadlines, and data quality, allowing for flexible-load deadlines, demand-response requests, local energy sharing, and failure scenarios within a single environment. The framework records controller inputs, distinguishes requested actions from applied ones, and provides reference controllers, performance indicators, and trajectory exports for comprehensive comparisons across communities.

By Tiago Fonseca, Luis Lino Ferreira, Armando Sousa, Ava Mohammadi, Zoltan Nagy
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Synthetic Electric Vehicle Charging Session Generation Using a Conditional Variational Autoencoder

The paper introduces a conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) to generate synthetic electric vehicle (EV) charging sessions from real transaction-level data. It trains on engineered features such as plug‑in duration, charging duration, delivered energy, charging delay, and cyclical time‑of‑week, conditioning on day of week and managed charging status. Evaluation shows the synthetic data preserves key statistical properties and supports predictive modelling tasks via a Train‑on‑Synthetic‑Test‑on‑Real protocol.

By Graeme Kelly, Emilio J. Palacios-Garcia, Barry P. Hayes