TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of Electric Vehicle Charging on Power Distribution Systems
T2 - A Case Study of the Grid in Western Kentucky
AU - Roy, Pranoy
AU - Ilka, Reza
AU - He, Jiangbiao
AU - Liao, Yuan
AU - Cramer, Aaron M.
AU - Mccann, Justin
AU - Delay, Samuel
AU - Coley, Steven
AU - Geraghty, Melissa
AU - Dahal, Sachindra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - With the growing adoption of both residential and commercial electric vehicles (EV) and the rapid deployment of EV charging stations, it is of paramount importance to assess the potential overloading impact of intensive EV charging on the operation and planning of power distribution systems. Targeting at the west Kentucky rural area, this research leverages the Distribution Resource Integration and Value Estimation (DRIVE) and HotSpotter software tools to investigate the potential impact of EV charging on the operation of regional distribution systems and the lifetime degradation of power transformers. The research outcome helps identify possible distribution system overload risks and mitigation solutions to meet future intensive EV charging necessity under assumed EV adoption scenarios. Possible overloading in the distribution systems and undervoltage violations are examined. In addition, the overload impact of EV charging is investigated by conducting a multi-physics reliability analysis of a distribution transformer.
AB - With the growing adoption of both residential and commercial electric vehicles (EV) and the rapid deployment of EV charging stations, it is of paramount importance to assess the potential overloading impact of intensive EV charging on the operation and planning of power distribution systems. Targeting at the west Kentucky rural area, this research leverages the Distribution Resource Integration and Value Estimation (DRIVE) and HotSpotter software tools to investigate the potential impact of EV charging on the operation of regional distribution systems and the lifetime degradation of power transformers. The research outcome helps identify possible distribution system overload risks and mitigation solutions to meet future intensive EV charging necessity under assumed EV adoption scenarios. Possible overloading in the distribution systems and undervoltage violations are examined. In addition, the overload impact of EV charging is investigated by conducting a multi-physics reliability analysis of a distribution transformer.
KW - Electric vehicles
KW - charging infrastructure
KW - overloading
KW - power distribution system
KW - transformer reliability
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3276928
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3276928
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85160216623
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 11
SP - 49002
EP - 49023
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -