Journal
IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 4345-4355Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2021.3104185
Keywords
Vehicle-to-grid; Load modeling; Load management; Electric vehicle charging; Threshold voltage; Pricing; Water heating; Electric vehicles (EVs); load balancing; network reconfiguration (NR); preconditioning; vehicle to grid (V2G)
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- Hydro-Quebec
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The article discusses the impact of increased electric vehicle charging demand on the distribution grid. It proposes a hybrid method of using V2G and network reconfiguration to handle the new peak load, effectively reducing network losses.
The repercussion of increased electric vehicle (EV) charging demand is notable at the distribution grid especially during the cold morning, while users tend to precondition their vehicles before leaving their premises. Moreover, due to the price declination, a tendency of installing level 2 chargers in residential premises is anticipated, which should stimulate the appearance of a new peak to the residential load profile. Hence, multiple scenarios of preconditioning are simulated, and the corresponding network's quality metrics (e.g., voltage level and power losses) are assessed to analyze the impact. And a remarkable consequence is observed. As a consequence, to mitigate the consequences and manage the new peak load, the optimal reconfiguration of network is implemented, and unfortunately, with a larger number of EVs, this technique fails to attain the minimum voltage level. Therefore, leveraging this high number of EVs, instead of relying on the network reconfiguration, power is assumed to be injected from idle EVs through vehicle-to-grid (V2G) energy transmission. An integer linear program is formed to schedule a set of EVs in participating in V2G, and the outcome indicates that V2G alone could not compensate for the disturbance in the network. Accordingly, a hybrid method of V2G and reconfiguration is proposed and evaluated to assist the network in handling the new peak load, and this hybrid solution reduces power losses in the network by 50% on average and maintains the voltage level above the operational threshold of 0.95 p.u.
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