Team has resource to estimate the impact of electric vehicles
A resource to estimate the impact that electric vehicles will have on the national grid has been developed by a team at Northumbria University.
Dr Ghanim Putrus, reader in electrical power engineering in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, led the project to create a tool that allows policy makers to predict and prepare for the increased use of electric cars and how it will affect the power network.
The new Grid Capacity Calculator is said to consider future electricity needs by taking a measurement of an area’s existing energy consumption and then calculating the likely future demand for, and impact of, having increasing numbers of electric cars plugged in for recharging.
It was developed through a collaboration involving Northumbria University and Charge your Car project, a government programme, which is currently installing electric vehicle charging points across North East England.
According to the university, the North East has been highlighted as the UK’s first designated low-carbon economic area (LCEA) and there are plans to create a local infrastructure to support electric vehicles, including the installation of 1,000 electric car charging points in the region by 2013.
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