EV Integration

Project Completed

Our Final Webinar: EV Integration Recommendations and Project Summary

Our Final Reports: Recommendations for Electric Vehicle Integration and EV Management and Time-of-Use Tariff Profiles

Our Latest Papers: Assessing the EV Hosting Capacity of Australian Urban and Rural MV-LV Networks and Producing Realistic EV Demand Profiles for Distribution Network Studies

We have designed our distribution networks (the poles and wires) to cope with our peak demand. In Australia, the design value can vary from 3 to 7 kW per house (single phase) which accounts for diversity and demographics. Although our networks have been engineered to withstand demand growth, this does not include electric vehicles (EVs). Since the trend around the world is for EVs charged at home to use fast chargers (~7kW of demand), they clearly are a concern for distribution companies as the extra demand could easily exceed what the poles and wires have been designed for.

Summary

This multi-disciplinary project explores, with a range of both network-related and consumer-related research methodologies and tools, customer acceptance and expectations around electric vehicles (EVs), distribution network impacts from unmanaged EVs, distribution network integration of EVs using active management strategies, and techno-economic network and system integration of EVs.

This 2-year project (Sep 2020 to Sep 2022) is funded by Energy Networks Australia (ENA) and the Centre for New Energy Technologies (C4NET). It also involves the Australian Power Institute (API) and multiple Australian Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs).

Our Team

Prof Pierluigi Mancarella, Techno Economics
Prof Luis(Nando) Ochoa, Distribution Networks
Dr Patricia Sauri Lavieri, Customers
Prof Majid Sarvi, Transport
Dr William Nacmanson, Distribution Networks
Dr Shariq Riaz, Techno Economics
Jing Zhu, Distribution Networks
Carmen Bas Domenech, Customers
Gabriel Oliveira, Customers

Technologies Involved

Electric Vehicles, Solar PV
High and Low Voltage Distribution Networks
Smart Grids, Time-of-Use Tariffs

Tools

Python ⟺ OpenDSS
GitHub

Go to Timeline

September 2022 (End)

✓ Techno-economic network and system integration of EVs

Milestone 12: Final Workshops. Webinar.
Milestone 11: Dataset.
Milestone 10: Recommendations for Electric Vehicle Integration. Report.
Milestone 9: Techno-economic modelling and assessment: initial studies.

March 2022

✓ Distribution network integration of EVs using active management strategies

Milestone 8: Active management of network and EVs and benefit assessment of different charging strategies for different scenarios. Report and Webinar.
Milestone 7: Intelligent EV management strategies: first take. Webinar.

September 2021

✓ Distribution network impacts from unmanaged EVs

Milestone 6: Detailed network modelling and EV impact assessment studies under different scenarios. Report and Webinar (Slides).
Milestone 5: Gathering of network and EV data and initial studies. Webinar (Slides).
Milestone 3b: Customer survey, preliminary customer expectation. Report.

April 2021

✓ Customer acceptance and expectations around EV

Milestone 4: Gathering of preliminary network and EV data and set-up of initial case studies
Milestone 3a: Literature review. Report.
Milestone 2: Literature review on EV customer preferences and uptake. Webinar.
Milestone 1: Project establishment

September 2020 (Start)