question about P_charging sum in utils/Simulate_Actions3.py

[lalala215]

Dear author,

Thanks for your work. This repo is beneficial to my research. But I have a question about this code line.

Chargym-Charging-Station/Chargym_Charging_Station/utils/Simulate_Actions3.py

Line 41 in 78c0ed2

Total_charging = sum(P_charging)

From my point of view, P_charging includes some EV charging actions even if there is no EV at the charging points. For example, if hour=0, there is no car in the charging points(present_cars=0), BOC is also 0. And If the action in this charging point is larger than 0, then the P_charging also shows a positive value in this charging point. And it will be summed as a total charging power, which is inconsistent with reality. Can you explain this?

I am hoping for your reply.
Best regards.

[georkara]

Dear author,

Thanks for your work. This repo is beneficial to my research. But I have a question about this code line.

Chargym-Charging-Station/Chargym_Charging_Station/utils/Simulate_Actions3.py

Line 41 in 78c0ed2

Total_charging = sum(P_charging)

From my point of view, P_charging includes some EV charging actions even if there is no EV at the charging points. For example, if hour=0, there is no car in the charging points(present_cars=0), BOC is also 0. And If the action in this charging point is larger than 0, then the P_charging also shows a positive value in this charging point. And it will be summed as a total charging power, which is inconsistent with reality. Can you explain this?

I am hoping for your reply. Best regards.

Thank you for finding this useful. If i am getting right, you mean that an if statement should be included to exclude such a case right? If so, i think that you are right. I think that the provided scenario of arrivals already includes at least one arrival at the first time step (hour=0), so i didnt notice this. Correct me if i misunderstood your question. Thank you very much.

[lalala215]

Yes! adding an if statement would be useful in that case to exclude the unwanted charging points.
Also maybe change this line 41 as
Total_charging = sum(P_charging[np.where(present_cars[:,hour]>0)])
would be useful.
This means we only add the present car action into the total charging.