Solar carparks for electric vehicle charging in a grid with limited capacity

The electricity grid in the Netherlands is currently unable to provide sufficient capacity for both the integration of new renewable electricity powerplants as well as for the integration of new electricity demands like electric vehicle charging. Symptoms of this scarcity of capacity, also seen in other countries undergoing an energy transition,...

Offset Carbon Emission Accounting Methodology and Application to Solar Carport

Most nations have agreed to limit the emission of greenhouse gases within the Paris Agreement. The agreement relies on the assumption that all participating nations have accurate means of estimating carbon emissions and offsets accurately. However, global carbon emission accounting methodologies lack accuracy in approach and required carbon...

The Transition: Design and engineering of a sustainable solar carport for the 'Nederlandse Spoorwegen'

The energy transition is a hot topic, businesses also need to think about manners to transition to sustainable energy. Within this graduation the- sis, a stakeholder is involved named the ‘Nederlandse Spoorwegen’, in short NS. The stakeholder has the ambition to make their station’s en- ergy neutral. To achieve this, electricity generating...

Energy Management System with PV Power Forecast to Optimally Charge EVs at the Workplace

This paper presents the design of an energy management system (EMS) capable of forecasting photovoltaic (PV) power production and optimizing power flows between PV system, grid, and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) at the workplace. The aim is to minimize charging cost while reducing energy demand from the grid by increasing PV self...