A cost-effective and high-efficient EV shared fast charging scheme with hierarchical coordinated operation strategy for addressing difficult-to-charge issue in old residential communities

Charging infrastructures are being deployed widely in urban and rural areas to solve the so-called “last one-kilometer” charging problem. However, for old residential communities, the existing difficult-to-charge issue is not easily solved solely by the widespread deployment of charging infrastructure owing to limited spaces, complex reconstruction, and huge costs. In this context, this paper introduces a cost-effective and high-efficient shared fast charging scheme for old residential communities. The comprised registration-based queuing charging mechanism is proposed to schedule electric vehicle (EV) charging. An integrated and multi-stage power electronic device called smart interlinking unit (SIU) is introduced for grid reconstruction. The SIU-based charging station architecture features flexible control capability, enabling DC power supply for terminal EV chargers. For this architecture, a novel hierarchical coordinated operation strategy is designed, comprising the upper-level real-time vehicle-to-grid (V2G) dispatching and lower-level coordination strategies. Case studies demonstrate that the proposed scheme could accommodate 40 % EV penetration, while exhibiting a significant decline in system investment and occupied area compared to the slow charging scheme. Additionally, a 1.3 % improvement in average transfer efficiency is verified under this architecture. The proposed strategy is proven to realize a prominent power peak-shaving and valley-filling, effective transformer load balance, and DC voltage restoration.