Smart Grid Facing the New Challenge: the Management of Electric Vehicle Charging Loads

Because of the energy shortage, air pollution and greenhouse gas over mission, the plug-in electric vehicles can be looked as the alternative of the current fossil fuels vehicles. But PHEVs charging brings out the serious problem to the power systems security operation. Smart grid, with its flexible operation ways, is likely to solve this problem. This paper discusses the relationship between the smart grid and the PHEVs charging load. Then introduce the PHEVs influence on the power system based its different operation model. The third part presents the coordinated charging schedule model and in the last part, some core technologies to construct the communication net are also discussed. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).