This is the first Lessons Learnt Report for the Jemena Dynamic Electric Vehicle Charging Trial and details the key lessons for the period of December 2020 to May 2021.
Report extract
The purpose of this Project is to undertake a residential Electric Vehicle (EV) managed charging trial involving 176 EVs across ACT, Victoria and Tasmania, with the trial ending November 2022.
Jemena is leading a consortium of 5 Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSP’s) to understand the impacts of EVs on the electricity system, consumer willingness for third party control and to demonstrate how DNSPs can play a direct role in EV charge management. It is expected that as a result, DNSP’s can materially advance their preparedness for the impacts of EVs on the electricity system.
This pilot program has been established to gain insights in ways to accommodate home EV charging while minimising network charges to all customers, with the key objectives of:
- Monitoring network capacity in real time and providing technologies that can automatically control charging including time delay and throttling. i.e. initiating, delaying and/or varying EV charging rates.
- Understanding customer behaviors during the recruitment process and through customer surveys during and after demand response events.
- Building capabilities to forecast the real household EV charging load associated with managed charging.