Sustainability, Resiliency, and Grid Stability of the Coupled Electricity and Transportation Infrastructures: Case for an Integrated Analysis
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 21, Issue 4
Abstract
Electrified vehicles (EVs) couple transportation and electrical infrastructures, impacting vehicle sustainability, transportation resiliency, and electrical grid stability. These impacts occur across timescales; grid stability at the millisecond scale, resiliency at the daily scale, and sustainability over years and decades. Integrated models of these systems must share data to explore timescale dependencies, and reveal unanticipated outcomes. This paper examines EV adoption for sustainability, resiliency, and stability effects. Sustainability findings, consistent with previous studies, indicate that electrification generally reduces lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and increases and . Electrified vehicles enhance vehicle resiliency (ability of vehicle to complete typical trips during fuel outage). Coupled results enhance EV resilience research, finding that a 16-km (10-mi) all-electric range plug-in hybrid EV improves resiliency versus a gasoline-only vehicle. Increasing EV market share reduces grid stability. Stability depends upon charging profiles and background electrical demand. Stability-related grid outages increase with EV market penetration. This paper modeled these systems in their coupled form across timescales yielding results not obvious if the systems were modeled in isolation.
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Acknowledgments
The research reported in this paper was funded through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN) grant (Award No. 0835995). The research reported in this paper is also part of the United States/China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) on Clean Vehicles, which is partially supported by the U.S. DOE (Award No. DEPI0000012) and its industry partners. The efforts of Dr. Joel Forman and Prof. Mariesa Crow in supporting the research reported in this paper are acknowledged.
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Received: Nov 25, 2013
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