Title :
Power quality with green energy, DDC, and inductively powered EV´s
Author :
Boys, John T. ; Lee, Josh R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract :
This paper is concerned with the infrastructure required for electric vehicles (EV) as society moves towards a future where transportation is less dependent on oil, while producing less carbon dioxide, and less pollution. In this future EV´s will become a substantial load on the grid and it is important that this load improves the power quality rather than makes it worse. Here EV´s are inductively charged allowing opportunity charging at multiple points when stationary, and continuous power when moving along the highway. Using Dynamic Demand Control (DDC) the charging load is shown to be beneficial to the grid and suggestions are made on how wind power (or other) Distributed Generation (DG) can assist using DDC to bolster rural power supplies for this purpose. A new protocol combining DG and DDC (DGDC) allows high penetration of wind and simulations are presented to show its effectiveness producing wind power at grid voltage and frequency for small communities, and regulating load in areas of interest in cities. This power can displace conventional power in all applications, including EV charging, while improving the load factor and quality of the grid.
Keywords :
distributed power generation; electric vehicles; load regulation; power grids; power supply quality; transportation; wind power; bolster rural power supplies; continuous power; distributed generation; dynamic demand control; green energy; grid voltage; inductively powered electric vehicles; load factor; multiple point charging; power quality; stationary power; substantial grid load; transportation; wind power; Blades; Generators; Heating; Reactive power; Green energy; demand control; electric vehicles; inductive power; power quality;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC), 2011 IEEE 33rd International
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1249-4
Electronic_ISBN :
2158-5210
DOI :
10.1109/INTLEC.2011.6099730