access icon free Autonomous plug and play electric vehicle charging scenarios including reactive power provision: a probabilistic load flow analysis

Electric vehicle (EV) charging can have various impacts on low-voltage distribution systems, along with increasing the uncertainty of network load levels. One method for capturing the statistical uncertainty is probabilistic load flow (PLF). A primary concern of such an approach is determining the correlation between the input variables. Since data are limited, a 1 min resolution bottom-up time-variant load model, capturing the changing voltage dependencies of the load, is used for modelling household electrical demand to provide pseudo-meter data for the three-phase PLF analysis of a residential distribution network. The correlation between the household and EV charging loads are implicitly taken into account by modelling the EV plug-in and departure times with the corresponding occupancy model. Two autonomous plug-and-play charging scenarios are compared with a standard charging arrangement at both unity and 0.95 capacitive power factors. Four different PLF input correlation scenarios, varying from fully correlated to fully independent, are considered. The proposed charging scenarios and reactive power provision reduce the likelihood of system voltage violations introduced by EVs. The PLF results are verified against those from the initial time-series analysis providing valuable insight into the uncertainty introduced by EVs and the correlation between household and EV loads.

Inspec keywords: electric vehicles; probability; statistical analysis; distribution networks; load flow; reactive power

Other keywords: reactive power provision; occupancy model; probabilistic load flow analysis; PLF; initial time-series analysis; statistical uncertainty; household electrical demand modelling; resolution bottom-up time-variant load model; residential distribution network; unity power factors; network load level uncertainty; pseudometer data; system voltage violations; low-voltage distribution systems; time 1 min; EV charging loads; load voltage dependency; capacitive power factors; PLF input correlation; autonomous plug and play electric vehicle charging scenarios; three-phase PLF analysis

Subjects: Transportation; Distribution networks; Other topics in statistics

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