Resumen de Smart and sustainable scheduling of charging events for electric buses

Padraigh Jarvis, Laura Climent, Alejandro Arbelaez Rodríguez

• This paper presents a framework for the efcient management of renewable energies to charge a feet of electric buses (eBuses). Our framework starts with the prediction of clean energy time windows, i.e., periods of time when the production of clean energy exceeds the demand of the country. Then, the optimization phase schedules charging events to reduce the use of non-clean energy to recharge eBuses while passengers are embarking or disembarking. The proposed framework is capable of overcoming the unstable and chaotic nature of wind power generation to operate the feet without perturbing the quality of service. Our extensive empirical validation with real instances from Ireland suggests that our solutions can signifcantly reduce non-clean energy consumed on large data sets.