Abstract:

The transition to the zero-carbon power system is underway accelerating recently. Hydrogen energy and electric vehicles (EVs) are promising solutions on the supply and demand sides. This brief presents a novel architecture that includes hydrogen production stations, fast-charging stations, and commercial EVs. The proposed architecture jointly optimizes the hydrogen energy dispatch and the EV charging location selection and is formulated by a time-varying bilevel bipartite graph (T-BBG) model. We develop a bilevel iteration optimization method combining the linear programming (LP) and the Kuhn-Munkres (KM) algorithm to solve the joint problem whose optimality is proved theoretically. The effectiveness of the proposed architecture on reducing the operating cost is verified via case studies in Shanghai. The proposed method outperforms other strategies and improves the performance by at least 13%, which shows the potential economic benefits of the joint architecture. The convergence and impact of parameters are assessed.