Electric vehicles in the concept of smart cities

The Smart City concept allocates a significant role in transport issues in the city. The integration of the electric vehicles on the example of the electricity distribution network of a single microdistrict of Riga in the concept of Smart Cities is analysed in this article. To perform the estimation it was necessary to determine: the number of consumers in the single urban microdistrict which are distributed into three respective sectors - the household sector, the public sector and the commercial sector; a time period of maximum and minimum daily electricity consumption for each sector and the load factors; the number of EVs that could be integrated in a single microdistrict´s network. The estimation of the average daily load schedules of electricity consumers´ of urban microdistrict in the working day for three sectors was performed in the two cases (with EV and without EV). The obtained results illustrate that the integration of EVs at the urban microdistrict improve the overall load schedule and the load factor.