The Impact of Sustainable Communities on the Low Voltage Distribution Network

Conclusion

 

 

The positive outcome from the ADMD Results was that only with the addition of EVs does the ADMD value become dangerously high. This was encouraging, as it could be some number of years before the UK would reach such a deployment of EVs, if it ever happens at all. The results shown from the scenarios also show that the wires were fitted with a high resilience which is an encouraging output for the project and utility companies.

 

As the ADMD results showed that the addition of EVs could have potential impacts on the grid, this has given an indication to future issues and therefore changes could be implemented now to plan for the future.

 

Additionally, as the results that were analysed correlated to the worst case ADMD then in theory, the impacts discussed in the ADMD results would most likely be reduced. If given more time for the project then the WRISC Tool would have implemented randomised profile shifting to produce a more accurate ADMD result as opposed to using the published diversity factors. This would have given a more accurate analysis of the impact on the wires, however for the purposes of this project the results shown give a good estimation of the ADMD values and hence the impact on the low voltage distribution network.