Grid Impact Analysis of Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
This paper presents a grid impact analysis of heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. In this work, heavy-duty EVs have battery capacities high enough to provide a range of 250-500 miles on a single charge, such as long-haul trucks. Heavy-duty EVs will require extremely fast charging rates to reduce charging time and will induce very high charging loads (at the multiple-megawatt scale) if several vehicles charge at the same time. Therefore, analysis is needed to understand the impact of charging station loads on the electric power grid and set the baseline for developing mitigation plans and necessary system upgrades. We develop a systematic procedure to analyze the potential impact of the placement of charging stations on the grid. Charging load is modeled using a DC fast-charging station model. A voltage load sensitivity matrix approach is leveraged to investigate the challenges of placing charging stations on the feeder. Given the charging load profiles and suggested charging station locations, time-series simulations are performed on various connection points on the feeder to understand the impact. The analysis is performed on both the IEEE 34-bus system and a realistic feeder from California. Initial mitigation solutions are developed based on insights from this analysis.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1669507
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5D00-77388; MainId:26334; UUID:3022bd9e-4f3a-4c8c-b892-6c3adeff2ab8; MainAdminID:14112
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 17-20 February 2020, Washington, D.C.; Related Information: 74838
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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