This document presents a research project to develop a power regulating application for electric vehicle charging infrastructures. The goals are to create a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to specify the maximum power capacity for charging electric vehicles across different time intervals. This will help balance the additional load from electric vehicles on the electric grid. The research objectives, methods, and initial app design are outlined. Future work includes expanding the interval input across multiple days and connecting the app to an actual power control network.

1. A POWER REGULATING APPLICATION
FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
INFRASTRUCTURES
GABRIEL E. COLÓN REYES
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, MAYAGUEZ
WAVE FELLOWS PROGRAM
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
ADVISOR: DR. STEVEN LOW
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 2016

2. PRESENTATION LAYOUT
• Research motivation
• Background
• Research objectives
• Methods
• App Design
• Future work
• Acknowledgements
• Questions

3. RESEARCH MOTIVATION
• Recent developments in renewable energy technologies
• EV adoption into the electric grid = More load for the grid

4. BACKGROUND
• Electric grid restructure
• Bottleneck of EVs is not charger cost, rather limiting power capacity
• Meet charging requirements of all EVs when possible

6. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
• Create a GUI for power capacity specification across time intervals
• Design a user-friendly interface
• Connect with ACN server for data exchange

7. METHODS
• Become familiar with the basics of HTML and JavaScript
• Begin basic app design
• Look up specifics as they become necessary

8. PROGRAM LOGISTIC
Start
Default?
Input default
Power Cap
Update data
array
Print updated
graph
Yes
No
Interval?
Input interval
& Power Cap
Update data
array
Print updated
graph
Yes
No

9. APP DESIGN

10. APP DESIGN

11. FUTURE WORK
• Allow capability to input intervals across multiple days
• Connect the app to the ACN server
• Implement with colleagues’ applications

12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Dr. Steven Low and Netlab
• Southern California Edison
• WAVE
• SFP Office
• NSF

13. QUESTIONS?
Gabriel E. Colón Reyes
Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
gabriel.colon8@upr.edu