ABSTRACT
Within the smart grid technology landscape, a broad range of hardware, software, application and communications technologies are at various levels of maturity and deployment. The coordinated implementation of smart grid technologies such as distributed energy storage, communications, control, power electronics, and power system technologies allows the seamless integration of intermittent DG and adds further capabilities to it including controllability and firmness. This chapter examines the potential impact of PEVs on the existing grid, describe methods of using smart grid technologies alleviate foreseen problems, and investigate potential opportunities enhance the performance of the electric grid using PEVs. In the longer term, the aggregation of PEVs will allow them to be integrated more readily into the existing ancillary service command and contracting framework, since the grid system operator needs only directly communicate with the aggregators. The simplest and most effective means for controlling the energy consumption of PEVs is direct utility control of charging times.
