Meeting Details

Grid Impacts of PHEVs

Date: Thursday, February 26^th, 2009

Location: SRP Information Services Building (ISB), 1600 N Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281

Speaker: Dr. Arindam Maitra, EPRI

Topic: "Grid Impacts of PHEVs"

As the potential economic and environmental benefits of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) become apparent and as strong interest develops among automakers, seamless integration of PHEVs to the grid will be a critical step to encourage utility support for PHEV commercialization. Technological barriers continue to fall, but taking advantage of opportunities to increase revenue and improve power system efficiency using PHEVs will require active participation by utilities and OEMs in how the vehicles are introduced to customers. PHEVs are transformational in that they introduce electricity as a meaningful automotive fuel to a potentially very large market. This presentation will focus on some of the most pressing technical issues associated with the act of plugging these vehicles into the electric grid. Topics that will be covered in this speech include grid impacts, research efforts currently underway to address the T&D impact assessment, update and discussion of standards activities currently underway to address communication between utility and PHEVs

Speaker Bio:
Arindam Maitra is a senior project manager in the Energy Utilization program area of the Power Delivery and Utilization (PDU) sector at the Electric Power Research Institute. He is currently responsible for leading and managing activities related to power system infrastructure requirements for Plug-in Hybrids. He is also responsible for conducting and managing numerous research activities associated with power systems and power electronics.

Dr Maitra received his B.E. from R.E.C. Nagpur in 1995 and holds a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers on such topics.