14-02-2018, 07:29 PM
Seeing no other responses yet, my brief stake is the following: TIMES is primarily intended for long-term energy system analysis, and, as such, I would say that one could use TIMES for analysing the impact of Electric Vehicles at least on the following grid-related aspects:
• Investments into new generation capacity in each grid node (due to the EV impact on demand levels and profiles)
• Investments into new transmission capacity between grid nodes (due to the EV impact on demand levels and profiles)
• Transmission losses (due to the EV impact on flows between grid nodes)
• Ability to integrate intermittent renewable energy sources (e.g. by modelling EVs as storage technologies)
• Ability to do demand valley-filling and peak shaving by charge management strategies
Local impacts, for example on the wear and overloads of transformers and on local blackouts, as well as non-linear effects on power flows and power quality, should most likely be studied with different models.
• Investments into new generation capacity in each grid node (due to the EV impact on demand levels and profiles)
• Investments into new transmission capacity between grid nodes (due to the EV impact on demand levels and profiles)
• Transmission losses (due to the EV impact on flows between grid nodes)
• Ability to integrate intermittent renewable energy sources (e.g. by modelling EVs as storage technologies)
• Ability to do demand valley-filling and peak shaving by charge management strategies
Local impacts, for example on the wear and overloads of transformers and on local blackouts, as well as non-linear effects on power flows and power quality, should most likely be studied with different models.