Monte Carlo study on impact of electric vehicles and heat pumps on LV feeder voltages

Author

Li, Yuhua ; Crossley, Peter A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

March 31 2014-April 3 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps (HPs) on the voltages seen on a low voltage (LV) feeder is investigated in this paper. The Monte Carlo (MC) method was adopted to understand the impact of diversity of demand on LV feeders and especially the effect of uncontrolled human behaviour. The statistical models of EV demand and HP demand were established and a simulation study was carried out in both balanced and unbalanced scenarios. Moreover, the effectiveness of the TOU tariff on mitigating the violations of the voltage limits caused by EVs and HPs was investigated and the result shows that the TOU tariff helps to shorten the violation time period but may induce a new violation period.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; demand side management; electric vehicles; heat pumps; power distribution economics; power markets; LV feeder; Monte Carlo method; TOU tariff; demand diversity impact; electric vehicles; heat pumps; low voltage feeder; statistical model; violation time period; voltage imbalance; voltage limit; Voltage imbalance; demand side response; electric vehicle; heat pump; low voltage network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Developments in Power System Protection (DPSP 2014), 12th IET International Conference on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

978-1-84919-834-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2014.0095

Filename

6822903