The exponential deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) in the residential sectors in recent years allows better energy utilization in the decentralized and centralized levels of distribution systems due to their bidirectional operation and energy storage capabilities. However, to execute these, it is necessary to adopt residential demand side management (RDSM) to schedule energy utilization effectively to fetch economical and efficient energy consumption and grid stability and reliability, particularly during peak load conditions. The paper aims to formulate a robust and efficient RDSM technique to provide an energy utilization scheduling considering various influential factors and critical roles of EVs in RDSM. A Binary Whale Optimization Algorithm (BWOA) approach is proposed as an efficient algorithm for EV's impact on the RDSM for better energy scheduling. A single-objective formulation is presented with detailed modelling considering economic energy utilization as the primary objective with all possible equality and inequality system operational constraints. Secondly, the impact of EVs on the RDSM is studied from various perspectives in result analysis, considering EVs as load, storage devices, and different bidirectional modes of operation with other vehicles, residential components, and grids. In addition, the EVs role and the mutual influence with the integration of renewable energy sources (RES) and energy storage devices (ESDs) are extensively analyzed to provide better residential energy management (REM) in terms of economic, environmental, robust, and reliable points of view. The load priority based on consumer choice is also incorporated in the formulation. Extensive simulation is done for the proposed approach to show the effect of EVs on REM, and the results are impressive to show the EV's role as a load, as a storage device, and as a mutually supportive device to RES, ESD, and grid.

College of Engineering University of Business and Technology Jeddah 21448 Saudi Arabia

Department of Computer Science Engineering Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University Bhubaneswar Odisha India

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University Bhubaneswar Odisha India

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering SR University Warangal 506371 Telangana India

Department of Electrical Engineering Graphic Era Dehradun 248002 India

Department of Electrical Engineering Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University Bhubaneswar Odisha India

Department of Electrical Engineering Srinix College of Engineering Gopalgoan Odisha India

ENET Centre CEET VSB Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava 708 00 Czech Republic

Hourani Center for Applied Scientific Research Al Ahliyya Amman University Amman Jordan

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