Smart Charging: An Outlook Towards its Role and Impacts, Enablers, Markets, and the Global Energy System

Bikash Sah, Praveen Kumar

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Abstract

The push for transport electrification has increased worldwide due to growing concerns about carbon emissions by conventional fossil fuel based vehicles. With the push of transport electrification, the exiting power systems utility grid is also evolving. Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming popular and gaining the market share in due course of time. The increase in EVs demands more power to charge which results in a significant impact on the utility grid. Dependency on renewable energy sources and the use of local energy storage has increased. Inculcating the incremental addition of EVs and the integration of renewables and local energy storage requires overhauling the planning, monitoring, operation, and maintenance of the power system and its components. Smart charging is an EV charging technique that focusses on reducing the impact of increased power demand and helps in the integration of renewables and local energy storage. Smart charging adds flexibility in the operation of power system components with added functionalities that give augmented monitoring and control to EV users and the power system operator. The goals of smart charging are set to unleash coherency between transport electrification, low-carbon emission generation, and utilization of electricity. This chapter will define the context of “smart” with respect to “smart charging”, present an outlook towards its role and impacts on the utility grid and connected entities, and describe the enablers of smart charging, markets, and the operation of the global energy system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSmart Charging Solutions for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Publisherwiley
Pages1-38
Number of pages38
ISBN (Electronic)9781119771739
ISBN (Print)9781119768951
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Energy system
  • market
  • role
  • smart charging

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