Human-System Interfaces for PV-Powered Electric Vehicles Charging Station

In the planning and design of a photovoltaic (PV)-Powered Electric Vehicles (EVs) Charging Station, a tool, oriented to study its technical, social, economic, and environmental aspects, has been sparsely explored or presented in the literature. Hence, the development of a graphical tool that allows to study and analyze these aspects prior to its implementation, of vital importance in the pre-development stage of this energy system and its integration with EVs. In this paper, a human-system interface (HSi) for PV-powered EVs charging stations is presented. The proposed environment is designed to analyze the energy system in three main segments: EVs' charging behavior, drive decarbonization, and grid optimization. The HSi can work in “simulation mode” and “real-time mode”. In both cases, it calculates, collects, and transmits data from a MATLAB-Simulink model of a grid-connected DC microgrid. The tool displays useful information about the microgrid's status, charging behavior of EV users and the green energy adoption in each charging session.