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LAPSE:2023.25845
Synthetic Data Generator for Electric Vehicle Charging Sessions: Modeling and Evaluation Using Real-World Data
Manu Lahariya, Dries F. Benoit, Chris Develder
March 31, 2023
Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have become prominent in electricity grids in the past few years. Their increased penetration introduces both challenges and opportunities; they contribute to increased load, but also offer flexibility potential, e.g., in deferring the load in time. To analyze such scenarios, realistic EV data are required, which are hard to come by. Therefore, in this article we define a synthetic data generator (SDG) for EV charging sessions based on a large real-world dataset. Arrival times of EVs are modeled assuming that the inter-arrival times of EVs follow an exponential distribution. Connection time for EVs is dependent on the arrival time of EV, and can be described using a conditional probability distribution. This distribution is estimated using Gaussian mixture models, and departure times can calculated by sampling connection times for EV arrivals from this distribution. Our SDG is based on a novel method for the temporal modeling of EV sessions, and jointly models the arrival and departure times of EVs for a large number of charging stations. Our SDG was trained using real-world EV sessions, and used to generate synthetic samples of session data, which were statistically indistinguishable from the real-world data. We provide both (i) source code to train SDG models from new data, and (ii) trained models that reflect real-world datasets.
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electric vehicle, exponential distribution, Gaussian mixture models, Machine Learning, mathematical modeling, Poisson distribution, Simulation, smart grid, synthetic data
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Lahariya M, Benoit DF, Develder C. Synthetic Data Generator for Electric Vehicle Charging Sessions: Modeling and Evaluation Using Real-World Data. (2023). LAPSE:2023.25845
Author Affiliations
Lahariya M: IDLab, Ghent University − Imec, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Benoit DF: Center for Statistics, Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Develder C: IDLab, Ghent University − Imec, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium [ORCID]
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Energies
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13
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16
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E4211
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2020
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2020-08-14
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1996-1073
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