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Title: Technical Impacts of Light-Duty and Heavy-Duty Transportation Electrification on a Coordinated Transmission and Distribution System

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Online)

In this study, we propose a strategy to model the required spatiotemporal charging demand from light-duty (LD) and medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) electric vehicles (EVs) using actual transportation data by mapping the demand for the required EV charging to a realistic and coordinated distribution and transmission electric grid at the predicted times of the day to study their impact on the power system in a variety of load, weather, and EV penetration scenarios. This work is the first study that includes the actual weather data and transportation data with realistic and coordinated distribution and transmission grid data in a large industry-scale level study. The main goal of this study is to identify possible issues and required upgrades in the electric grid, caused by an increase in EV integration. The transmission case study is a large grid with 6717 buses over a Texas footprint, and the distribution grid is over Houston, a city in Texas, covering over three million customers. The resulting overloads and voltage violations experienced in the system are discussed, and required planning upgrades to avoid these issues are suggested.

Research Organization:
Electrotempo, Inc., Arlington, VA (United States); Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
Grant/Contract Number:
AR0001366; EE0009665
OSTI ID:
3015856
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Online), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 11; ISSN 2372-2088; ISSN 2332-7782
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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