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Wide-scale electrification of the transportation sector will require carefulplanning and coordination with the power grid. Left unmanaged, uncoordinatedcharging of electric vehicles (EVs) at increased levels of penetration willamplify existing peak loads, potentially outstripping the grid's capacity toreliably meet demand. In this paper, we report findings from the OptimizEVProject - a real-world pilot study in Upstate New York exploring a novelapproach to coordinated residential EV charging. The proposed coordinationmechanism seeks to harness the latent flexibility in EV charging by offering EVowners monetary incentives to delay the time required to charge their EVs. Eachtime an EV owner initiates a charging session, they specify how long theyintend to leave their vehicle plugged in by selecting from a menu of deadlinesthat offers lower electricity prices the longer they're willing to delay thetime required to charge their EV. Given a collection of active chargingrequests, a smart charging system dynamically optimizes the power being drawnby each EV in real time to minimize strain on the grid, while ensuring thateach customer's car is fully charged by its deadline. Under the proposedincentive mechanism, we find that customers are frequently willing to engage inoptimized charging sessions, allowing the system to delay the completion oftheir charging requests by more than eight hours on average. Using theflexibility provided by customers, the smart charging system was shown to behighly effective in shifting the majority of EV charging loads off-peak to fillthe night-time valley of the aggregate load curve. Customer opt-in ratesremained stable over the span of the study, providing empirical evidence insupport of the proposed coordination mechanism as a potentially viable"non-wires alternative" to meet the increased demand for electricity drivengrowing EV adoption.

Achieving Reliable Coordination of Residential Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging: A Pilot Study