Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective

The number of electric vehicles on the road in the UK is expected to rise quickly in the coming years, and this is likely to have an impact on the operation of the power grid. This paper first quantifies the consequences of allowing a completely electric fleet to charge freely, then considers whethe...

Descripció completa

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autors principals: Crozier, C, Apostolopoulou, D, McCulloch, M
Format: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Elsevier 2018
_version_ 1826284256820723712
author Crozier, C
Apostolopoulou, D
McCulloch, M
author_facet Crozier, C
Apostolopoulou, D
McCulloch, M
author_sort Crozier, C
collection OXFORD
description The number of electric vehicles on the road in the UK is expected to rise quickly in the coming years, and this is likely to have an impact on the operation of the power grid. This paper first quantifies the consequences of allowing a completely electric fleet to charge freely, then considers whether there is a practical way in which the impacts can be mitigated. We predict that, with an entirely electric fleet, the UK power generation capacity would need to increase by 1/3. We show that it is possible to completely mitigate this with controlled charging, although substantial infrastructure would be required. However, we propose a simple scheme which could largely avoid the negative effect and does not require the creation of new infrastructure. We show that this reduces the projected increase in peak electricity demand by 80–99%.
first_indexed 2024-03-07T01:11:09Z
format Journal article
id oxford-uuid:8d0e1178-af95-4410-a9b5-e5fd8bab08b5
institution University of Oxford
language English
last_indexed 2024-03-07T01:11:09Z
publishDate 2018
publisher Elsevier
record_format dspace
spelling oxford-uuid:8d0e1178-af95-4410-a9b5-e5fd8bab08b52022-03-26T22:48:44ZMitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspectiveJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8d0e1178-af95-4410-a9b5-e5fd8bab08b5EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2018Crozier, CApostolopoulou, DMcCulloch, MThe number of electric vehicles on the road in the UK is expected to rise quickly in the coming years, and this is likely to have an impact on the operation of the power grid. This paper first quantifies the consequences of allowing a completely electric fleet to charge freely, then considers whether there is a practical way in which the impacts can be mitigated. We predict that, with an entirely electric fleet, the UK power generation capacity would need to increase by 1/3. We show that it is possible to completely mitigate this with controlled charging, although substantial infrastructure would be required. However, we propose a simple scheme which could largely avoid the negative effect and does not require the creation of new infrastructure. We show that this reduces the projected increase in peak electricity demand by 80–99%.
spellingShingle Crozier, C
Apostolopoulou, D
McCulloch, M
Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective
title Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective
title_full Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective
title_fullStr Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective
title_full_unstemmed Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective
title_short Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: a power generation perspective
title_sort mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification a power generation perspective
work_keys_str_mv AT crozierc mitigatingtheimpactofpersonalvehicleelectrificationapowergenerationperspective
AT apostolopouloud mitigatingtheimpactofpersonalvehicleelectrificationapowergenerationperspective
AT mccullochm mitigatingtheimpactofpersonalvehicleelectrificationapowergenerationperspective