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Electric Vehicles - Impact on electrical network. Survey of vehicle uptake.

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Dear IET forum,

I am carrying out research into the impacts of the projected surge of electric vehicle uptake on the local network infrastructure. The results will be used as part of my Technical report for Ceng. Please could you spare 2 minutes completing the survey in the link below? Its very short I assure you and completely anonymous. My aim is to understand a sample of peoples views on them personally taking up ownership of electric vehicles and if the pandemic may have changed their future car ownership behaviours. 

When complete i can post the results here and if you are interested make a comment and i can send you the finished technical report.

Much appreciated, thank you in advance.!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CC7GJSB

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    vehicles like cars trucks and busses (sic) are significant, but as the national grid studies themselves show, this doesn’t require an upgrade as such, but a change in the way we use electric.


    I must admit I am much less sure about that -  we should remember that "National Grid" despite the name  is not a network operator in the sense of the distribution networks in the UK, and them being ready just means they think the generation is in place for them to buy from generators and sell power to the Distribution Network Operators at the pylon level..

    Now I'm not hearing the same reassuring noises from SSE, YEDL, Norweb etc some of whom have some pretty creaky kit still in service, and I suspect the 11kV and 400/ 230V  end of the chain is not really man enough in many places. There are plenty of housing estates served by half megawatt transformers, each serving 50 to 70 houses per phase. Not much slack there at 2 to 3kW average per house, and a few hundred thousand such transformers in use.

    Mike.
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    vehicles like cars trucks and busses (sic) are significant, but as the national grid studies themselves show, this doesn’t require an upgrade as such, but a change in the way we use electric.


    I must admit I am much less sure about that -  we should remember that "National Grid" despite the name  is not a network operator in the sense of the distribution networks in the UK, and them being ready just means they think the generation is in place for them to buy from generators and sell power to the Distribution Network Operators at the pylon level..

    Now I'm not hearing the same reassuring noises from SSE, YEDL, Norweb etc some of whom have some pretty creaky kit still in service, and I suspect the 11kV and 400/ 230V  end of the chain is not really man enough in many places. There are plenty of housing estates served by half megawatt transformers, each serving 50 to 70 houses per phase. Not much slack there at 2 to 3kW average per house, and a few hundred thousand such transformers in use.

    Mike.
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