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  • Md. Mosaraf Hossain Khan
    International Islamic University Chittagong
  • Amran Hossain
    International Islamic University Chittagong
  • Aasim Ullah
    International Islamic University Chittagong
  • Molla Shahadat Hossain Lipu
    Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
  • S. M. Shahnewaz Siddiquee
    University College Cork
  • M. Shafiul Alam
    King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • Taskin Jamal
    Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka
  • Hafiz Ahmed
Electric vehicles (EVs) have received massive consideration in the automotive industries due to their improved performance, efficiency and capability to minimize global warming and carbon emission impacts. The utilization of EVs has several potential benefits, such as increased use of renewable energy, less dependency on fossil-fuel-based power generations and energy-storage capability. Although EVs can significantly mitigate global carbon emissions, it is challenging to maintain power balance during charging on-peak hours. Thus, it mandates a comprehensive impact analysis of high-level electric vehicle penetration in utility grids. This paper investigates the impacts of large-scale EV penetration on low voltage distribution, considering the charging time, charging method and characteristics. Several charging scenarios are considered for EVs’ integration into the utility grid regarding power demand, voltage profile, power quality and system adequacy. A lookup-table-based charging approach for EVs is proposed for impact analysis, while considering a large-scale integration. It is observed that the bus voltage and line current are affected during high-level charging and discharging of the EVs. The residential grid voltage sag increases by about 1.96% to 1.77%, 2.21%, 1.96 to 1.521% and 1.93% in four EV-charging profiles, respectively. The finding of this work can be adopted in designing optimal charging/discharging of EVs to minimize the impacts on bus voltage and line curren

Keywords

  • plug-in electric vehicles, grid integration, power demand, voltage profile, grid resolution, impact-assessment process
Original languageEnglish
JournalSustainability
Volume13
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Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2021

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