Clean vehicles as an enabler for a clean electricity grid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15548019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Coignard (0000-0003-4985-6427, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Samveg Saxena (0000-0002-4266-410X, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, corresponding author), Jeffery B Greenblatt (0000-0002-6421-3385, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Dai Wang (0000-0001-9616-7427, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 054031-054031 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aabe97 |
| OpenAlex | W2803439184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
California has issued ambitious targets to decarbonize transportation through the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs), and to decarbonize the electricity grid through the expansion of both renewable generation and energy storage. These parallel efforts can provide an untapped synergistic opportunity for clean transportation to be an enabler for a clean electricity grid. To quantify this potential, we forecast the hourly system-wide balancing problems arising out to 2025 as more renewables are deployed and load continues to grow. We then quantify the system-wide balancing benefits from EVs modulating the charging or discharging of their batteries to mitigate renewable intermittency, without compromising the mobility needs of drivers. Our results show that with its EV deployment target and with only one-way charging control of EVs, California can achieve much of the same benefit of its Storage Mandate for mitigating renewable intermittency, but at a small fraction of the cost. Moreover, EVs provide many times these benefits if two-way charging control becomes widely available. Thus, EVs support the state's renewable integration targets while avoiding much of the tremendous capital investment of stationary storage that can instead be applied towards further deployment of clean vehicles
Business · Electrical engineering · Electricity · Enabling · Energy storage · Environmental economics · Grid · Renewable energy · Software deployment · Advanced battery technologies research · Computer Science · Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure · Engineering · Environmental Science · Automotive Engineering
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |