Smart home EV charger based on Entrust Smart Home Microgrid

该项目将开发一种智能家用电动汽车充电器，为电动汽车车主提供交流和直流电源，以便在家中充电。对于那些有路边停车场和屋顶太阳能光伏安装的物业，智能家居EV充电器将提高智能家居的电力（微电网）系统性能，降低微电网系统成本，并最大限度地提高用户从智能电动汽车充电和智能家庭微电网与太阳能光伏发电的利益。此外，该项目将开发电动汽车用户的智能手机应用程序和相关的基于云的管理系统，以聚合和管理用户的资源，包括电动汽车，为使用户以集体方式参与电力市场，进一步提高用户的经济效益，同时还为电网提供负载平衡服务和电网支持。该项目将对零排放车辆的采用产生重大影响，因为该创新将使电动汽车太阳能光伏发电直接充电，以最高的功率效率，使电动汽车在家庭中提供电网辅助服务，既平衡电网，又提高电网运行效率，该项目将在促进道路交通电气化，家庭太阳能光伏安装和智能家庭微电网实施方面发挥关键作用。在智能家居微电网中重新使用退役或报废的电动汽车电池，因此将通过减少碳排放和改善空气质量产生非常积极的环境影响。该项目将创造和保障就业机会，造福英国经济，对电网基础设施规划和运营产生重大影响，该项目汇集了英国在智能电动汽车充电和智能家居能源管理方面的领先专业知识，来自行业和学术界，将产生第一手的教育材料，为大学/学院和学生进行知识转让，以进一步促进对零排放车辆和家用太阳能光伏系统的兴趣和吸收。

This project will develop a smart home EV charger, supplying both AC and DC power for EV owners to charge from home. For those properties with off-street parking and rooftop solar PV installation, the smart home EV charger, will boost the smart home power (microgrid) system performance, reduce the microgrid system cost and maximise user's benefits from both the smart EV charging and smart home microgrid with solar PV power generation.In addition, the project will develop an EV user's smartphone App and associated cloud-based management system to aggregate and manage users' resources, including electric vehicles, to enable users to participate in the electricity market in a collective manner so as to further enhance user's economic benefits, whist also providing the grid with load balancing services and support for the grid.The project will have a major impact on the uptake of zero emission vehicles because the innovation will enable EV charging directly from solar PV power at the highest power efficiency, enable EV's in the home to provide grid ancillary services, both balancing the electricity grid and improving the grid operation efficiency.The project will play a key role in facilitating road transport electrification, domestic home solar PV installation and smart home microgrid implementation. Re-use of after-service or end-of-life EV batteries in the smart home microgrid, and therefore will have very positive environmental impact through carbon emission reduction and air quality improvement.The project will generate and safeguard jobs and benefit the UK economy, have major impact on the electricity grid infrastructure planning and operation, facilitate time-of-use electricity tariff.The project brings together UK's leading expertise in smart EV charging and smart home energy management from both industry and academic sectors and will generate first-hand education materials, and knowledge transfer for universities/colleges and students to further facilitate the interest in and uptake of both zero emission vehicles and domestic solar PV systems.