A Simulated Case Study of Smart Grid's Impact on Enabling Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is a hot-topic for many researchers and companies alike because of the environmental concerns about current means of energy production. However, many kinds of renewable energy sources generate fluctuating power, which is hard to load-balance through different days of a month, or even hours of a day. This consistency problem increases the need for energy storage improvement. In this study, we elaborate on if an IoT enabled smart-grid application can successfully manage energy consistency for households through using electric vehicles as mobile storage means. We designed and implemented a highly-realistic projection for a city of Turkey, Denizli to observe the impact of using electric vehicles within a solar powered grid. The simulation results reveal that the proposed solution provides self-sufficient uptimes more than twice of the standalone grid with uptimes up to 100%, showcasing an immense potential for such applications.