GIZ India, in cooperation with NITI Aayog, Government of India, and Tata Power has released the first report titled, ‘A Critical Review: Smart Charging Strategies and Technologies for Electric Vehicles’.
The report focuses on concepts of smart charging, a critical review of various smart charging strategies and approaches for electric vehicles, smart charging technologies, and related commercially available smart charging products along with the impact of EVs on the power system and power grid.
The report is a first in the series of the ongoing study on ‘Simulation-based study to evaluate the effects of E-mobility smart charging strategies’
The report also focuses on the gaps in Indian regulation policies from the smart charging perspective and is a part of an ongoing regional project titled, ‘The Nationally Determined Contribution-Transport Initiative for Asia’ (NDC-TIA), funded under the International Climate Initiative (IKI) by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), and comprising of seven organisations and including the partner countries India, China, and Vietnam.
The implementation partner of this NDC-TIA India project is NITI Aayog, Government of India.
Also read: Smart Power India Releases Findings Of Joint Study With NITI Aayog
The study “Simulation-based study to evaluate the effects of E-mobility smart charging strategies” has been carried out by a consortium led by Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, Kassel, Germany, and supported by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India (IITB), Universidad Pontificia Comillas (IIT Comillas) in Madrid, Spain, and Technical University Denmark (DTU) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Tata Power facilitated this study for GIZ India with real data for several feeders in its distribution network across the three Indian cities of Delhi, Mumbai, and Bhubaneswar.
Main objective
The main objective of this study is to understand relevant smart coordinated charging strategies that require to be adopted in different scenarios and conditions in India. Different charging strategies have been selected under the study to perform load flow analysis and simulations on real feeder level data obtained from Tata Power. Towards the end of the event, a way forward and an outlook was also presented by Prof Martin Braun, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, Kassel, where he highlighted advanced technologies in e-mobility space such as Vehicle to Grid (V2X), Virtual Power Plant (VPP), etc.
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