Power system restoration is facing new challenges and opportunities in the past few years

as the increasing renewable energy sources and active loads such as electric vehicles are being integrated into the power system. On the other hand

existing research has not yet paid much attention to the impacts of dispatchable electric vehicles in the process of power system restoration. A multiobjective optimization model for developing system restoration schemes considering the support from electric vehicles is presented. The possible functions of electric vehicle charging／swapping stations in supporting power system restoration are discussed first. Then

a multiobjective optimization model is formulated with three objectives

i.e.

minimizing the number of restored transmission lines

minimizing the outage durations of the nonblackstart generating units and important loads

minimizing the voltage deviations of the restored power network. Finally

the IEEE 30bus test system is employed to demonstrate the established multiobjective optimization model

and the impacts of electric vehicle charging／swapping stations on power system restoration strategies are discussed in detail. This work is jointly supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2013CB228202) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51361130152

No. 51377005).