Enhancing electric vehicle hosting capabilities using strategic allocation of charging stations and energy storage systems
Karmaker, Ashish Kumar, Du, Yang, Behrens, Sam, and Pota, Hemanshu (2025) Enhancing electric vehicle hosting capabilities using strategic allocation of charging stations and energy storage systems. Journal of Energy Storage, 135. 118095.
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Abstract
This paper introduces an innovative, strength-based, optimal allocation of public electric vehicle charging stations and energy storage systems to enhance hosting capabilities in distribution networks, considering nearby residential and transient customers. Unlike traditional network augmentation, this work emphasizes optimal placement in the early stages of adoption, using voltage deviation and load contribution analysis to enhance hosting capacity. The proposed framework uniquely incorporates diverse regional stakeholder dynamics, often overlooked in existing studies. To address regional challenges, this research integrates Australian-specific EV adoption patterns, plugin uncertainties, and storage export capabilities into its planning model. The stochastic nature of electric vehicle demand is modeled using a Monte Carlo Simulation, providing a probabilistic estimation of hosting capabilities under real-world uncertainties. This stochastic hosting capacity assessment technique addresses voltage and thermal limits, power loss, and voltage imbalances to ensure network integrity and efficient electric vehicle integration. By combining planning-level strategies with stochastic operational insights, this work bridges a critical gap in existing research, offering a scalable and adaptive solution for early-stage penetration of electric vehicles. The results demonstrate that the proposed strength-based allocation, supported by energy storage systems, can significantly enhance hosting capabilities for electric vehicles while aligning with the technical and practical needs of regional distribution networks.
| Item ID: | 88787 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2352-152X |
| Keywords: | Electric vehicles, Energy storage systems, Hosting capacity enhancement, Optimal placement |
| Copyright Information: | © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2026 02:12 |
| FoR Codes: | 40 ENGINEERING > 4008 Electrical engineering > 400804 Electrical energy storage @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 27 TRANSPORT > 2703 Ground transport > 270308 Road infrastructure and networks @ 100% |
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