The Electrical Vehicle to Grid, it’s likely Impact on Future of Power System – A Review Paper

Vehicles running on oil have to change over in next few decades to alternatives which could be hydrogen, electricity. World over, almost all the major players in the automobile industry have introduced electric vehicles (EV) or Plug-in Hybrid Electric vehicle (PHEV) in the market. This is rather in response to their commitment to a green environment, reducing carbon footprints and reducing the emission rates. With the unveiling of the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020, by the government of India manufacturers are urged to adopt electric vehicles in an attempt to reduce our dependence on imported oil. The ambitious plan aims to produce 6–7 million electric vehicles by 2020 with an estimated fuel saving of 2.2–2.5 million tonnes of oil. Electric vehicles when utilized for feeding back the energy to the grid play a very important role in Demand response in Smart grid environment. This will play a major role in the Power sector scenario. Though this technology is yet to pick up in India, it has become popular in the western countries. Lot of Research work has been carried out and research work has been published, which is reviewed in this paper.