Placing EV Chargers to Strengthen the Grid

What is happening? Leila Hajibabai, assistant professor in the industrial and systems engineering department at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of a paper on the work in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering writes about a computational model that locates the best locations for EV chargers without burdening the grid.

Why is this important? The model finds locations that will be “serving the greatest number of people without taxing the power system.”

How will this be important? The model accounts for “the limitations of the power distribution network—its power flow, voltage, current, and so on.” Often the best place for EV chargers for the grid and the best place for drivers don’t align, the model finds ways to meet both competing interests.

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