Transportation Electrification

Increasing transportation electrification through quickened plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) adoption presents both opportunities and challenges to power system operators. Although the electrification of transportation offers power utilities the opportunity to increase total load served by adding new customers, the sustainable integration of PEVs over the long term requires improved understanding of overload risks on existing power distribution systems.

We work on projects to build community partnerships and best practices for expanding electrified transportation by developing robust networks of charging infrastructure for residential and commercial charging, electrifying public transportation, and expanding intercity PEV corridors.

• A. Bagherinezhad, A. Palomino, B. Li, M. Parvania, “Spatio-Temporal Electric Bus Charging Optimization with Transit Network Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, in press, 2020. DOI
• A. Palomino, M. Parvania, “Data-Driven Risk Analysis of Joint Electric Vehicle and Solar Operation in Distribution Networks,” IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, in press, 2020. DOI
• A. Palomino, M. Parvania, “Advanced Charging Infrastructure for Enabling Electrified Transportation,” Electricity Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 21-26, May 2019. DOI
• A. Palomino, M. Parvania, “Probabilistic Impact Analysis of Residential Electric Vehicle Charging on Distribution Transformers,” in Proc. 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS2018), Fargo, ND, September 9-11, 2018. DOI
• R. Khatami, M. Parvania, A. Bagherinezhad, “Continuous-time Model Predictive Control for Real-time Flexibility Scheduling of Plugin Electric Vehicles,” in Proc. 10^th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power & Energy Systems (CPES2018), Tokyo, Japan, September 4-6, 2018. DOI
• R. Khatami, M. Parvania, K. Oikonomou, “Continuous-time Optimal Charging Control of Plug-in Electric Vehicles,” in Proc. IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Conference, Washington, DC, Feb. 2018. DOI
• S. Hosseini, A. Badri, M. Parvania, “A Survey on Mobile Energy Storage Systems: Applications, Challenges and Solutions,” Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 40, pp. 161–170, Dec. 2014. DOI