What could possibly go wrong with lots of outside chargers in cold weather areas and power generation that is insufficient?
Study forecasts challenges of electric vehicle chargers on northern power grids
A study is revealing some of the challenges that electric vehicles will pose to northern power grids — and it’ll likely be revised now that Canada has a plan for phasing out the sale of gas-powered cars and trucks.
“At no point in our studies did we consider 100 per cent electric vehicle adoption,” said Michael Ross, a researcher at Yukon University who is leading the study.
Ross, an industrial chair in northern energy innovation, said his research is looking at slow to high adoption rates of electric vehicles in Dawson City and parts of Whitehorse and Yellowknife. So far, it’s showing some of the ways residential power grids will be strained if people in those neighbourhoods add Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations to their homes, he said. (snip)
Ross said the study, funded by power utilities in all three territories, won’t just outline all the challenges that may arise as interest in electric vehicles — and the means to charge them — grows. It’ll also contain solutions or ways to mitigate those issues.
Of course, since Government is heavily involved (though most in government who are forcing this on the peasants aren’t actually driving EVs themselves), any solutions will be barely operational
Jay Massie, the vice president of northern development and Indigenous relations for ATCO Electric, said ATCO already has a “good understanding” of what electrification will do to northern power grids.
“The fast chargers … are significant electrical loads on the grid, so it’s just an increased demand and strain,” he explained. “The faster they charge, the more electricity they need.” (snip)
The challenge with electrification will be balancing the demand for power while keeping the supply on the rest of the system stable and reliable.
Transformers, the big green boxes you see in a neighbourhood, increase or decrease the voltage of electricity flowing through an energy grid. Ross said some transformers are “underrated,” meaning they weren’t designed to have a lot of electric vehicles integrated into them.
They’ll be adding a ton of electricity into the grid. Where’s it going to come from? How will the grid handle it? How will it handle it in cold climates? This is going to get ugly. And that’s not even accounting for that gas and diesel vehicles already have a hard time in that kind of cold.
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