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Abstract— As the penetration of electric vehicles (EV) and If BEV are present in the DN, the daily load profile
plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) increases, the depends on factors that are uncertain, such as the number of
requirement of the charging infrastructure will have an impact charged BEV, their charging level, battery capacity, daily
on the distribution network parameters and components, driven distance of the vehicles, energy consumption of the
especially with the growth of sale of such vehicles. In order to vehicles etc. Furthermore, the daily household load is
estimate this impact, probabilistic load flow method based on uncertain as well. Probabilistic load flow (PLF) is essential
Monte-Carlo simulation has been developed. The variables that tool in order to take into account uncertainties [4]. The
depend on the vehicles driving cycle have been obtained with techniques for solving PLF can be classified in three
data extraction from the 2017 National Household Travel
categories: Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, analytical methods
Survey (NHTS). In addition, general household load has also
and approximate methods [5]. The MC method uses
been considered in the simulation. Simulation results show
which network components could not withstand the simulated deterministic approach to solve the problem in each step. All
penetration level and what measures can be taken. uncertain variables in each step are randomly chosen. On the
other hand, analytical methods require mathematical
Keywords—Electric vehicles (EV), Plug in hybrid electric assumptions and convolution techniques to obtain
vehicles (PHEV), Monte Carlo simulation, 2017 NHTS mathematical description of the behavior of output random
variables. Approximate methods provide description of the
I. INTRODUCTION statistical properties of output random variables [6]. The
With the rising level of air pollution throughout the world, computational time for solving the problem with analytical
there is a higher pressure on national governments to take and approximate methods is much shorter than the
measures that will prevent the increasing concentration of computational time needed for MC simulation. However,
pollutants. Furthermore, the rising concentration of usually results calculated with analytical and approximate
greenhouse gasses is a reality that has to be considered. methods are verified against results calculated with MC
Therefore, in 2015 a total of 195 countries signed the first method [6]-[9]. In addition, the results from this model can be
climate change agreement which is legally binding [1]. used for DN planning and in such case the calculation speed
Vehicles with internal combustion contribute with 16% to the does not have significant role. Therefore, MC method has
global carbon dioxide emissions resulting from human been chosen to solve the PLF in this model.
activities [2]. Therefore, some national governments are There are several approaches when modeling BEV
introducing incentives for PHEV and EV in a form of free charging load profile (BCLP). For example, in [10] and [11]
parking, free insurance and other subsidies. the BCLP is modelled as a function of two random variables:
Marketing activities favoring the battery electric vehicles the start charging time (described by uniform or normal
(BEV), from national governments and automobile industry, distribution) and BEV battery state of charge at the start
will definitely increase the number of BEV on the streets. It is charging time (described by uniform distribution). If data
expected that the combined sale share of PHEV/EV will be coming from transportation surveys is used for modeling the
50% by 2050 [3]. Therefore, the impact from the BEV BCLP, results from the simulation model will be much
charging on the distribution network (DN) should be trustworthy. Therefore, in [12] the BCLP is extracted as a
investigated. function of four parameters: daily driven distance, start
charging time, BEV type and charging level. The first three
For the purposes of this paper, a simulation model has parameters are obtained from 2001 NHTS data [12].
been developed in order to estimate the impact coming from
BEV charging requirements. The charging demand of BEV For the purposes of this paper, the BCLP will be modeled
mainly depends on: similarly as in [12]. Instead of using the 2001 NHTS, in this
model data from 2017 NHTS [13] has been used. Also, there
• Electric vehicle parameters (such as battery is a difference in extracting the daily driven distance per
capacity, electricity consumption per km, power vehicle. The procedure is explained in Section II.A.
of charger and other parameters that are industry
defined). For increasing accuracy of simulation results, the
uncertainty of the daily household load is also included.
• Driver behavior, i.e. driven distance per day and Detailed information on how the uncertainty of the household
mode of driving (sport mode or driving mode). load is modeled, are provided in Section II.D.
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69% chance that the randomly chosen value will be less than
50 km.
The second parameter, the time of arrival of BEV, is also
randomly chosen value from extracted data. According to Fig.
2, there is 63% chance that the arriving time of the BEV will
be between 15:00h and 21:00h.
In [17], an assumption is made that the efficiency of the
charger is 88%. In [18] the active component of the charging
current is equal to 10A. In this paper, both of these parameters
are used for simulating charger power. The single-phase
charger power and the three-phase charger power can be
calculated with the following equations:
U1 p ⋅ I
Pch,1 p = (2)
ξ
Fig. 1 Precentage of vehicles versus kilometers driven
3 ⋅U3 p ⋅ I
Pch,3 p = (3)
ξ
Van 0.3164
• Time of arrival of BEV (start of charging).
SUV 0.2858
• Type of charger ( Pch ) . Pickup 0.2907
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TABLE V CALCULATED BATTERY CAPACITY FOR BEV WITH
DIFFERENT RANGE
Vehicle type BEV48 (kWh) BEV64 (kWh) BEV96 (kWh)
°Bcap d km ≥ AER Fig. 3 Stochstically generated daily BCLP for two vehicles
Ech = ® (5)
°̄ECBEV ⋅ d km d km < AER by the procedure explained in Section II.B, additionally taking
into consideration the vehicles type distribution from Table
In order to calculate the time needed to fully charge the III. All of these daily BCLPs are then randomly distributed
battery, (6) can be used. among network buses for each MC step.
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Fig. 5 Five cumulative load profiles for an area
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Fig. 7 Distribution of voltage magnitudes at bus 65, at 19:00 h. Fig. 9 Percent of weeks when EN50160 is not fulfilled - one cable
installed between buses 57 and 58
As mentioned above, if one MC step is a representation of
one day, then with 9,996 MC steps, 1,428 weeks are analyzed. However, buses 64 and 65 still do not fulfill the EN50160
Fig. 8 depicts the percentage of time when the standard is not standard for most of the time (weeks). Therefore, an additional
fulfilled. From Fig. 8 it can be seen that buses 61, 62, 63, 64 cable is installed between buses 56 and 57 with same
and 65, never fulfill the EN50160 standard with regard to characteristics as the present cable. In this case, there are two
voltage magnitude. More precisely, the voltage magnitude in cables with the same characteristics in parallel connecting
these buses is smaller than 0.9 p.u. for more than 5% of the buses 56 and 57. With this final cable installed, the voltage
time in every week. profiles at buses 64 and 65 are corrected and now they fulfill
EN50160 requirements with respect to the voltage magnitude
In order to get better voltage profiles at these buses, one for every week analyzed. The selected reinforcements are
possible solution is to implement smart charging techniques. introduced without any optimization procedure with only
With this approach, the peak demand from BEV charging will following the common engineering logic. This could be done
be shifted from the peak demand from households. Other more sophistically, which may be a subject for further work
possible solution is to add or reinforce lines connecting the where smart charging techniques will be taken into account as
affected buses in the DN in order to improve voltage profiles. well.
This approach is further investigated and presented below.
The case when BEV penetration level is 50% is also
Additional cable with the same characteristics as the investigated and the results are shown in Fig. 10. In this case,
existing one is installed between buses 57 and 58, so there are there are 3,750 BEV with their charging requirements and it
two cables with same properties running in parallel, can be seen that the EN50160 is not met at more busses and
connecting bus 57 and 58. Fig. 9 depicts the percentage of more often than previously. In order to improve the voltage
weeks when the bus voltage magnitude does not fulfill the profiles for 50% penetration level of BEV, a technically and
EN50160 standard, after installing the additional cable. It is economically rationalized solution should be implemented
evident that significant improvement compared to Fig. 8 is with the help of optimization technique. Such optimization
obtained.
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