DC trolleygrids as sustainable, multi-functional, and multi-stakeholder electrical infrastructures
Thinking outside of the bus
I. Diab (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)
P. Bauera – Promotor (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)
GR Chandra Mouli – Copromotor (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)
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Abstract
Electricity grids are increasingly congested as the world moves toward a sustainable, electrified future. Expanding and upgrading these infrastructures is costly and challenging on a technical and administrative level and even redundant when considering that some sub-parts of these grids, such as electric transportation networks, are massively underutilized. This thesis investigates, in four parts, the potential of one of these high-power infrastructures, the trolleybus grid, to become a sustainable, multi-functional, and multi-stakeholder backbone to urban power grids by integrating renewables, storage, and EV chargers, all while remaining ready for their next generation of sophisticated, high-power transport fleets such as In-Motion-Charging buses...