The first of four Knowledge Sharing Reports, this report provides details on the progress of Phase 1: Recruit and Build. It contains detailed information on aggregation software development, customer recruitment, charger supply chains and the difficulties encountered, installations progress and DNSP engagement.
Report extract
AGL’s Electric Vehicle Orchestration Trial has received funding from ARENA as part of ARENA’s Advancing Renewables Program. The trial comprises three streams:
- A trial of orchestrated residential EV smart charging comprising 200 participants who will have their charging controlled via a smart charger installed in their homes.
- A trial of two emerging charging technologies:
- Vehicle to grid (V2G) – 50 participants who will have vehicle charging and discharging
controlled via a V2G charger installed in their homes. - Vehicle API charging control – 50 participants who will have their vehicle charging controlled remotely via an API supplied by the vehicle manufacturer.
- Vehicle to grid (V2G) – 50 participants who will have vehicle charging and discharging
- A control group of 100 customers on a time-of-use (TOU) tariff to assess the effectiveness of a tariffication incentive against that of firm charging control.
The project is currently in the recruit and build phase, with 82 smart charger participants recruited and 28 chargers installed, plus 25 vehicle API participants recruited. Work on developing the necessary aggregation software is well advanced.
Due to delays in the availability of V2G chargers, the V2G stream of the project has not yet commenced.