Electric Vehicles and their Impact on the Electric Power Delivery System

The overall goal of this project is to eliminate technical barriers to electrified transportation by developing empirically validated methods to quantify and mitigate the impacts of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) charging on the electric power distribution infrastructure. This goal is divided into four objectives. The first two objectives are to develop data-calibrated methods to quantify the impact of PEV charging on the expected life of underground distribution cables and transformers in the low and medium voltage distribution systems. The third objective is to develop methods to mitigate potential damage to infrastructure by managing electric vehicle charging. The fourth objective is to integrate these components into a model of the total impact of high PEV penetration on the distribution infrastructure in a neighborhood. In order to perform the proposed calibration, the team will obtain data from a neighborhood distribution system in the Green Mountain Power territory which has existing Smart Grid infrastructure. These data will allow us to calibrate the transformer and cable models, which will be subsequently combined with existing work by the PIs to develop a tool for estimating the total impact of PEV charging on a given distribution system with known characteristics. This one-year project will lay the foundation for future work, which we expect to fund through externally funded research grants.

• Record URL:
  http://www.uvm.edu/trc/university-transportation-center/utc-current-project-list/electric-vehicles-and-their-impact-on-the-electric-power-delivery-system/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/research/trc_reports/UVM-TRC-14-010.pdf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $136876.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT06-G-0018

  026945

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Aultman-Hall, Lisa

• Performing Organizations:

  UVM Transportation Center

  University of Vermont
  210 Colchester Avenue
  Burlington, VT  United States  05405
• Principal Investigators:

  Frolik, Jeff

  Marshall, Jeff

  Hines, Paul

• Start Date: 20120601
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20140531
• Source Data: RiP Project 29886

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric power transmission; Electric vehicle charging; Plug-in hybrid vehicles; Transformers; Underground utility lines
• Uncontrolled Terms: Distribution systems
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01566198
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: UVM Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0018, 026945
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 12 2015 1:01AM