UCLA Electric Vehicle - Smart Grid (EV-SG) Living Lab Demo & EV-SG Consortium
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With the introduction of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt into the automobile marketplace, Electric Vehicles (EVs) are now poised to enter the mass market in the United States. This introduction of EVs potentially results in substantial opportunities for automobile manufacturers, EV charging providers, public and private parking facilities, electric utilities, energy regulators, policy makers, and the entire ecosystem of technology providers and technology companies. Along with the opportunities come challenges which include high cost of EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment), lack of availability of rapid charging public infrastructure, communications technologies between EVSE and infrastructure, challenges to the grid with respect to capacity, stability, demand and supply, security considerations for the infrastructure, etc. UCLA’s EV - SG (Electric Vehicle - Smart Grid) living lab is working on a variety of research and technologies to help advance the field with respect to these and other challenges.
On August 3, 2011, UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) and Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium (WINMEC) will be hosting its first EV-SG (Electric Vehicle in Smart Grid) Living Lab Demonstration. Along with the demonstration, we will be discussing our plans for the EV-SG Technology Consortium which would be partnered with the SMERC EV-SG living lab.
Current Keynote Speakers
- Marvin Moon, Director of Power System Enginering, LADWP
- Glenn Steiger, General Manager, Glendale Water and Power
Who Should Attend
This event would be relevant to executives, directors, managers, engineers, technologists, policy makers, investors, venture capitalists, and, researchers, from industry and government.
Event Location
UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA, USA
EV-SG Living Lab
Various technologies being developed in UCLA SG-EV Living Lab will be showcased. Various researchers, faculty and students will be making presentations on their work. Technologies demonstrated at the EV-SG Living Lab Demo would include the following:
LOW-COST REMOTE MONITORING OF CHARGING FROM EVSE
• Wi-Fi link between Charger monitor and Infrastructure
• Low cost Sensor for monitoring current
• Multiplexer
• Gateway Capabilities
EV TEST LAB CAPABILITY
• Demonstration of EV infrastructure emulation in lab
• Wireless communication with EV charger and battery
• Activation of Discharge
• Activation of Charge
• G2V and V2G capability
EV to GRID SIMULATION
• Simulation for solar/EV with grid-tie connection
• Charging signal profiles from charging station, e.g,. waveforms
• Multiplexing of EVs for limited charging infrastructure.
EV TO GARAGE
• Integration of Wireless Network into Garage
• EV monitoring by garage
• Linking EV to wireless networks
• Demonstration of Low power and medium power networks
• Mesh Network Topology for the Car and Charging Station
EV MOBILE APP
• User monitoring of EV status via push updates and alerts
• User control of EV charging
GARAGE CHARGE SCHEDULER
• Aggregate user schedules for the day and optimize charging schedule for either a) cheapest electricity price b) lowest electricity demand at the grid/ microgrid level
• Provide suggestions to users to lower their cost and/or carbon footprint
GARAGE OWNER/UTILITY MONITORING AND CONTROL WEB PORTAL
• Visualization of garage load daily, monthly
• Control of whole garages, individual chargers
• For Demand Response: given a desired quantity of power to shed and time, provide the location of one to many garages where this load can be shed
UTILITY CONSIDERATIONS (Demand Response) AND CONSUMER ISSUES
• Active battery management responsive to customer preferences and utility events
• Rate responsive intelligent EV battery charging based on customer priorities
• Automated participation of EV in a peak demand event as a DER
• EV battery as storage for residential renewable energy resource
• Investigation of facilitation of aggregated EV batteries for rapid response ancillary services
Technologies demonstrated will include: temperature, humidity, current and motion sensors, WiFi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, CDMA, GPRS, SAE J1772, Mobile Device User Interfaces, Mobile Push Technology, Modeling and Optimization, WINSmartEVTM, WINSmartGridTM.
EV-SG Technology Consortium
In 2010, SMERC announced initial plans for the EV-SG consortium, and, subsequently, based on strong interest from EV manufacturers, EVSE providers, utilities, regulators, policy makers, and, technology/solutions providers, we are now putting together the plans for the structure, activities, goals and objectives for this consortium. External leadership from the SMERC Smart Grid Leadership Council (http://smartgrid.ucla.edu/leadership.asp) and its Industry Partners Program or IPP (http://smartgrid.ucla.edu/uipp/2011-05/) would be drawn on to support the startup of this new organization within SMERC at UCLA. UCLA and SMERC staff and facilities (including charging stations, EVs, wireless mesh networking, existing research programs and technologies WINSmartEVTM and WINSmartGridTM, sensors, controllers, etc.) would be leveraged to jump-start the EV-SG Consortium. At this meeting, the structure and plans for the consortium will be presented, an open discussion between the participants will be initiated and the collaboration model of the consortium will be presented. A 10-year plan for the Consortium and the EV-SE Living Lab will be presented.
Agenda:
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Opening Remarks
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Presentations by Key Faculty, Researchers, Students on Living Lab
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Keynote, Marvin Moon, Director of Power System Enginering, LADWP
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Keynote, Glenn Steiger, General Manager, Glendale Water and Power
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Living Lab Demos in research labs and parking structures
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Consortium Plan Discussion, and Next Steps for Living Lab
