EV Everywhere

Manage the Transition to High EV Penetration

AI-Enabled Non-Wires Alternative to Improve Distribution Utilities’ Capacity for Increased EV Penetration

With the accelerating adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in neighborhoods, distribution utilities are faced with the challenges to support the increased demand from EV chargers in customers’ homes and businesses. Utilities need to better plan the infrastructure required by identifying priority areas where peak demand from charging will overload the system. They need to address capacity shortfalls by either implementing costly capital upgrades or delay and reduce the need by implementing non-wires alternatives.

The Problem

Improve visibility into grid and EV penetration to better plan capital infrastructure and operations

Run test scenarios with various levels of EV and DER penetration behind and in front of the meter.

Gain real-time insights into local load and peak predictions across the network, considering EV charging demand

Improve customer engagement and enable incentives for EV charging to assist grid operation

Enable intelligent management for enrolled customers with behind-the-meter EV chargers to mitigate peak demand

Optimally dispatch control of energy storage and EV charging schedules, to mitigate peak demand within the capacity of existing network infrastructure

The Solution

BluWave-ai’s EV Everywhere eases the transition to high EV penetration. Building on BluWave-ai’s distributed artificial intelligence (AI) SaaS platform, it uses real-time data to predict demand considering forecasted consumer loads plus behind and front-of-the-meter energy storage and renewable generation. Integrated with utility systems, EV Everywhere provides optimal dispatch for intelligent scheduling of EV charging and available battery energy storage. This provides a non-wires alternative solution mitigating peak loads and hence deferring and reducing the need for capital infrastructure upgrades

EV Everywhere incorporates load prediction, power flow optimization, IoT connectivity and fast AI execution capability to send load balancing signals to hardware. It learns and continuously optimizes operation, adapting to system changes automatically. With residential and commercial customers opting for charger management from the utility, EV Everywhere will automatically shift or regulate vehicle charging to optimally meet system goals while satisfying customers’ needs. Customers may also use a mobile app to get notifications of the best time to charge, along with incentives, setting of preferences and opting in to programs. EV owners participating with utilities using will be able to save money on their energy bills to reliably charge their vehicles. This will benefit utilities, consumers and system operators.

In operation, EV Everywhere smooths local peaks in the system and manages available distributed energy resources. EV Everywhere makes participation easy for the residential EV driver, and off-loads the task of managing active charging from the utility. Dashboards accessible via web app for utility operators provide visibility into the system status, real-time grid-power flow and predictions using machine learning for both day-ahead and same-day load predictions. Additionally, EV load detection allows utilities to track changes in the overall system with minimal new hardware.

Features

Optimal dispatch for intelligent scheduling of EV charging, available battery energy storage and renewable generation.
Provides EV Charging activation and preferences via end-user app for enrolled customers.
Provides dashboards for operators to visualize operations and show the effect of BluWave-ai intelligent optimization in real-time
Models growth of EV adoption and predicts future patterns for EV charging demand
Models infrastructure constraints and impact of EV-based DR
Phased on-boarding and deployment covering:
- Simulation and planning
- Long-term forecasting
- Integration and deployment intelligent DER management
- Intelligent management of EV charging and DERs

BluWave-ai also provides simulation tools to measure the potential impact of increased EV penetration down to the neighborhood level, and assess the impact with EV Everywhere. This enables targeted planning for capacity upgrades to non-wires alternatives by identifying priority areas of the distribution network to address increased peak demand.

EV Everywhere Brief

Phased Onboarding and Deployment

BluWave-ai works with utilities in a phased approach that starts with an initial assessment and follows with AI model training with historical data, running scenarios in simulation and analysis to assist in operational planning through to system integration, live testing and, lastly, operational deployment.

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