Impact of charging PHEV at different penetration levels on power system network

Plug-in Hybrid-Electric Vehicle (PHEV) offers numerous advantages compared to the conventional internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicle and has gained immense popularity in recent years. This paper proposed a technique that comprehensively presents the impact of charging PHEV on power system networks considering huge numbers of PHEV samples with its travelling data pattern. Vehicles Charging Load Profile (VCLP) is developed and implemented in IEEE 30-bus test system that represents a portion of American Electric Power System (Midwestern US). Normalization technique is used to correspond to real time loads at all buses. Results from the study indicated that charging PHEV using opportunity charging will have significant impacts on power system networks, especially when bigger battery capacity (kWh) is used as well as for higher penetration level.