Two-stage residential community energy management utilizing EVs and household load flexibility under grid outage event

To relieve the impact of the power grid outages on the residential sector, residential building energy management under grid outage events has been becoming the research hotspot in both the academic and industry. Considering the coordination of electric vehicles (EVs) and household load flexibility, this paper proposes a two-stage energy management approach for residential community under the planned outages. In the optimal scheduling stage, after receiving the information of the planned outage from the grid, the EVs’ charging–discharging power and community load curve reshaping schemes are optimal determined by residential community energy management system (CEMS), aiming at to minimize the total amount of unserved load of the whole community over the planned outage horizon. In the power allocation stage, with the formulated power allocation model, the determined residential community load curve from the above stage is then allocated to each house. The numerical test is finally conducted and the results validated the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed approach.