My Electric Avenue (I2EV) - Project Summary Report

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DRIVING TOGETHER

FOR A CLEANER FUTURE

DRIVING TOGETHER

FOR A CLEANER FUTURE

MY ELECTRIC AVENUE

MY ELECTRIC AVENUE HAS BEEN TRIALLING NEW TECHNOLOGY

TO HELP ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES MANAGE THE

DEMANDS FROM INCREASING NUMBERS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES.

THIS IS WHAT WEVE LEARNT.


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Distributionsubstation

Customers with Intelligent Socket*and electric vehicle(*the Esprit technology)

Communication normally via PLC

MY ELECTRIC AVENUE FOREWORD

CONTENTS

16% RISE IN PLUG-IN CAR SALES OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS

AN LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

OPE WHEN LARGE NUMBERS OF

LECTRIC VEHICLES ARE CHARGEDT PEAK TIMES?

IF NOT, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

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3,665

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Distributionsubstation

Low voltage cable

EV REGISTRATIONS (CARS ELIGIBLEFOR THE PLUG-IN CAR GRANT)

NOV 12OCT 2013 3,665NOV 13OCT 2014 11,214NOV 14OCT 2015 26,255

EA Technology is delighted to have led the My Electric Avenueproject. The results mean that we now have a much betterunderstanding o how the local electricity network is likelyto cope as sales o plug-in vehicles continue to rise. In areaswhere there may be capacity challenges, we also have asolution that can help minimise the need to upgrade somenetworks and this translates to some huge cost savings thatyou will see in this report.

So the headline outcomes rom My Electric Avenue areimpressive. However the actual journey down My ElectricAvenue has also been very interesting.

When we irst presented the idea or My Electric Avenue including the need to recruit 100 neighbours to drive anelectric car or 18 months as part o the trial many peoplebelieved that it could not be done. But the project did indeed

ind 100 people who were interested to trial an electric carand associated new technology to control their charging. Inact many thousands o people expressed interest in takingpart via our website.

A huge thank you needs to go to the cluster champions, whoplayed a key role in leading the recruitment o the groupso neighbours who took part. Their enthusiasm about theconcept o an electric avenue, which they passed on to thepeople they helped to recruit, helped to ensure the projectwas such a success.

Finally, I would like to thank all the project partners. Theyare listed elsewhere in this brochure, and all the partnersthat were there at the start o the project were also there atthe end. Without such an effective team, My Electric Avenuewould not have been able to present the learning outcomescontained in this report.

We now understand more about the ability o local electricitynetworks to cope with charging clusters o electric cars atpeak times, but that doesnt mean that our work is done.We now know that there is an issue, and EA Technology willcontinue to work with industry the energy industry and theautomotive industry to ensure we can charge the ever-growing numbers o plug-in cars and also keep our lights on.

Robert DavisChief Executive Officer

EA Technology

WHAT IS MY ELECTRIC AVENUE? 04

THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT. 06

WHY IS MY ELECTRIC AVENUE UNIQUE? 07

CAN LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS COPE WHEN 09

LARGE NUMBERS OF EVS ARE CHARGED AT PEAK TIMES?

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE CAPACITY ISSUE 10WITH SOME LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS?

OTHER LEARNING FROM THE PROJECT. 11

THE SUCCESSES OF THE PROJECT. 13

MY ELECTRIC AVENUE PROJECT PARTNERS AND ROLES. 14

THE FUTURE. 16

V REGISTRATIONS (CARS ELIGIBLE FOR THE PLUG-IN CAR GRANT)


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Y ELECTRIC AVENUE, A PIONEERING

FGEM-FUNDED PROJECT, HAS BEEN

XAMINING THE IMPACT OF ELECTRIC

EHICLES (EVS) ON THE LOCAL

LECTRICITY NETWORK AS SALES OF

VS CONTINUE TO RISE.

HE PROJECT HAS BEEN ADDRESSING

WO KEY, PREVIOUSLY UNANSWERED

UESTIONS:

BRIEF HISTORY

AN LOCAL ELECTRICITYNETWORKS COPE WHENARGE NUMBERS OF EVS AREHARGED AT PEAK TIMES?

F NOT, WHAT CAN WE DOBOUT IT?

DEC 2015:

END OF PROJECT

2016-2018:

LEGACY INITIATIVE

OV 2012:

ROJECT AWARDED

UNDING

JAN 2013:

PROJECT FORMALLY

COMMENCED

MAR 2013MAR 2014:

RECRUITMENT OF

CLUSTERS

JAN 2014JUN 2015:

TRIAL UNDERWAY

JUN 2015:

END OF TRIAL

JULDEC 2015:

COMMUNICATION OF

RESULTS

My Electric Avenue has been working with specially createdclusters o neighbours around the country who have all beendriving Nissan LEAF electric cars or 18 months. This has beencarried out to mimic a uture scenario where many people inan area choose to use a pure electric vehicle or plug-in hybridelectric vehicle (PHEV).

The project has been led by EA Technology, a trusted thirdparty innovation technology deliverer, with project partnersScottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution Limited(SSEPD) (the lead Distribution Network Operator, or DNO),Nissan (EV supplier), Fleetdrive Electric (EV rental programmemanagement), Zero Carbon Futures (charging point networkdeveloper) and Northern Powergrid (participating DNO).In addition there are two academic partners, the Universityo Manchester (providing network modelling support),

and De Montort University (providing socio-economicsupport). Ricardo has been providing independent technicalveriication to the project.

The project set out to look or ten electric avenues groupsor clusters, with ten people or more where each personwould drive an electric car or 18 months to trial a newtechnology, Esprit, which would monitor and control theelectricity used when their car was being charged.

The Esprit system is designed to avoid any potentialpower outages and damage to network inrastructure bytemporarily curtailing high load devices to reduce the overallload on a single eeder or transormer.

Over 100 people in different clusters around Britain weresuccessully recruited to My Electric Avenues Technical Trials.A urther 100 people were recruited to the projects SocialTrials; they also drove Nissan LEAF electric cars, but theydidnt need to be in a cluster and they didnt have the Esprittechnology itted.

The project aimed to provide essential learning aboutmanaging the strain on the distribution network rom theanticipated increased uptake o EVs, and to deliver a cost-effective solution to DNOs to reduce the need or networkreinorcement and allow a aster uptake o EVs.

My Electric Avenue is the public-acing name or the Ogem Low CarbonNetworks Fund project which is officially titled I2EV - Innovation Squared:

managing unconstrained EV connections.

WHAT IS MY ELECTRIC AVENUE?


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1. THE FIRST PROJECT TO FOCUS

PURELY ON THE IMPACT OF EVS ON

THE LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORK

My Electric Avenue has been the irst project to ocus onhow best to manage the local electricity networkwhena large number o EVs charge in the same street at thesame time.

2. THE FIRST PROJECT TO DIRECTLY

CONTROL DOMESTIC EV CHARGING

My Electric Avenue has been the irst trial that directlycontrols domestic EV chargingto prevent undergroundcables, overhead lines and substations being overloaded as well as exploring the acceptance amongst EV driverso direct control o their charging.

THIS REPORT PROVIDES A SUMMARY

OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT

OUTCOMES FROM MY ELECTRIC

AVENUE.

HE COMMERCIAL AIMS OF THE

ROJECT WERE TO:

THE TECHNICAL AIMS OF THE

PROJECT WERE:

Demonstrate delivery o a LCN Fund project by a non-DNO on behal o a DNO

Develop a novel commercial arrangement within whichother SMEs could emulate the working practices o theproject

Enable all procurement related to the project activityto be managed by a non-DNO

Evaluate the extent to which third party deliveryaccelerates deployment o LCN Fund projects.

1.To learn customer driving and EV charging habits

2.To trial equipment to mitigate the impact o EV charging

3. To explore the network beneits o such technology.

THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT

The outputs that the project had to produce, as part o thecontract with Ogem, are called Successul Delivery RewardCriteria (SDRC). My Electric Avenue has produced a numbero detailed SDRC reports, which can be ound at:www.myelectricavenue.info

3. THE FIRST PROJECT WITH

COMMUNICATION OF THIS TYPE

FROM A HOUSE TO A SUBSTATION

Technical innovation: The irst trial using technologywhich monitors and controls the demand on the localelectricity network as a result o the charging o EVs,communicating rom an individuals house or commercialpremises to an electricity substation.

4. THE FIRST PROJECT OF ITS KIND

MANAGED BY A PRIVATE COMPANY

Commercial innovation: This is the irst time a privatecompany, EA Technology, rather than an electricitycompany (i.e. a Distribution Network Operator or DNO)has led and managed an Ogem Low Carbon NetworksFund project. It has created a blueprint or how DNOs andthird parties can work together in this way in the uture.

WHY IS MY ELECTRIC AVENUE UNIQUE?

THIS HAS BEEN THE FIRSTPROJECT TO FOCUS ON HOWBEST TO MANAGE THE LOCALELECTRICITY NETWORK WHENA LARGE NUMBER OF EVSCHARGE IN THE SAME STREETAT THE SAME TIME.

HE AIMS OF THE PROJECT WERE SPLIT INTO TWO KEY CATEGORIES:

OMMERCIAL AND TECHNICAL.


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Y ELECTRIC AVENUES 18 MONTH

RIAL SHOWS THAT SOME LOCAL

LECTRICITY NETWORKS WILL

EQUIRE UPGRADES TO HELP

ANAGE THE INCREASE IN DEMAND

HAT COMES WITH MORE AND MORE

EOPLE CHANGING OVER TO EVS.

The results o the projects modelling has shown that acrossBritain 32% o low voltage (LV) eeders (312,000 circuits) willrequire intervention when 40% 70% o customers have EVs,based on 3.5 kW (16 amp) charging.

Susceptible networks are typically characterised by availablecapacity o less than 1.5 kW per customer.

My Electric Avenue has analysed the various kinds o lowvoltage networks in the UK and our types are expectedto experience issues due to the uptake o EVs at differingpenetration levels.

Traditionally, these indings would mean the replacement ounderground cables in the street, however My Electric Avenuehas been trialling a lower cost solution to this in the orm o

Esprit.

It is worth noting that new EVs can charge at a rate (7kW) thatis double that o the My Electric Avenue EVs (3.5kW), withcharging rates and battery capacities continuing to increaseurther; more work is needed to understand what this meansor local electricity networks.

MY ELECTRIC AVENUE HAS BEEN

TRIALLING A NEW TECHNOLOGY

CALLED ESPRIT AN INTELLIGENT

CONTROL BOX, I.E. THE HARDWARE

THAT IS ABLE TO CONTROL CHARGING

TO TEST IF THIS COULD HELP TO

MANAGE THE LOAD ON THE LOCAL

ELECTRICITY NETWORK AT TIMES OF

STRESS.

The Esprit system employs demand side managementtechniques to protect power networks rom potentialoverload that might be caused by the simultaneousrecharging o numerous EVs on the same substation eeder.It does so by instigating temporary curtailment o rechargingon a rolling basis (typically, in this trial, or 15 minutes each)across the local cluster o EVs.

The project showed that this technology was successul incurtailing charging when necessary, and thereore Esprit hasthe potential to be a solution or DNOs to prevent roads beingdug up and new higher capacity cables installed. By 2050 wethink this will give an economic saving o around 2.2 billion.

Any project that is attempting to do something new that

hasnt been done beore is almost guaranteed to experiencechallenges. One such challenge or My Electric Avenue wasthe prototype version o Esprit. Issues were experienced withboth the Mark 1 and Mark 2 versions, however by the endo the project sufficient curtailing o EV charging took placein all clusters and enough data had been recorded to providemeaningul results, and to prove the capabilities o the EspritTechnology.

Esprit also helps DNOs maintain network voltages. Largeloads like EVs can affect the system voltage, Esprit typicallyallows an additional 10% o customers to connect EVsbeore this occurs. Esprit can also help make networks moreefficient; by shifing demand away rom peak times Espritreduces the losses in eeders by about 9%.

CAN LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS COPE WHEN LARGENUMBERS OF EVS ARE CHARGED AT PEAK TIMES?

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE CAPACITY ISSUEWITH SOME LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS?

HE AFTER-DIVERSITY-MAXIMUM-DEMAND (ADMD) TRADITIONALLY

SED FOR DOMESTIC PROPERTIES IS 1KW; WITH THE INCLUSION OF

N EV THIS NEEDS INCREASING TO 2KW.

EV REGISTRATIONS (CARS ELIGIBLE FOR THE PLUG-IN CAR GRANT)

OUBLING THE LOAD 716% RISE IN PLUG-IN CAR SALES OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS

ORECASTS SUGGESTHAT ESPRIT COULD SAVEROUND 2.2 BILLION OFEINFORCEMENT COSTSP TO 2050.

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3,665

NOV 2013OCT 2014

11,214

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No. of EVs


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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT ABOUT

EOPLES CHARGING HABITS?

addition to the data rom the technology that controlse chargers, the University o Manchester has also analysedher data including that rom Nissans telemetry system.ndings include:

During weekdays, charging is more likely to be beore and

afer work (creating a morning and night peak)During weekends charging is more likely to be between10am and 6pm.

Approximately 70% o the EVs are charged only oncea day

More than 65% o vehicles are charged until thebattery is ull.

WHAT WAS LEARNT FROM THE

WORKPLACE CLUSTERS?

My Electric Avenue primarily trialled Esprit with households,however there were also workplace charging clusters.The use o Esprit on the business network was enabled byartiicially reducing the control threshold to a point slightlyabove the eeders normal load, excluding the chargingpoints.

HAS THE TRIAL RESULTED IN ANY

WIDER LEARNING ABOUT THE

ELECTRICITY NETWORK AND LOW

CARBON TECHNOLOGIES?

Participants became more aware o the electricity networkand increased their understanding o it through pre-trialinvolvement with the project. Participants also became

more aware o low carbon technologies and increased theirunderstanding o them throughout the trial. This increasewas primarily attributed to the actual experience o using anEV and charging points. However, project communicationsduring the course o the trial, contact with the project teamand the cluster champion, and the recruitment process allalso played an important role. Participants also reportedthat their use o an EV helped to educate people in the widercommunity as the EV provoked conversations with amily,riends and beyond.

ID THE TRIAL PARTICIPANTS

CCEPT HAVING THEIR EV CHARGING

XTERNALLY CONTROLLED?

well as testing the technical viability o Esprit, My Electricenue also assessed the EV drivers acceptability o a DNOing able to curtail their charging.

ials o Esprit were undertaken in the My Electric Avenueoject to establish whether such third-party control ocharging would have a negative impact on quality o

rvice or EV users.roughout the project, data was gathered throughestionnaires, interviews and ocus groups romrticipants in the trial. Analysis o this data indicatesat the use o the technology did not cause signiicantconvenience or unacceptable loss o ser vice to EV users,th the majority declaring themselves comortable or verymortable with Esprit being able to curtail their charging.

WHAT WAS LEARNT ABOUT

THE OFGEM BID AND PROJECT

MANAGEMENT PROCESS?

The Low Carbon Networks Fund is an excellent mechanism odelivering innovation or the electricity networks and Ogemshould be commended or its establishment.

The bid and project management processes beneited romthe (relatively quickly orged) strong working relationshipsbetween all o the project partners, and the tenacity o the

core project team to keep the project ocused on the agreeddelivery schedule.

The business community will beneit rom the wealth olearning derived rom an SME having successully managedand delivered such a major and groundbreaking project itpaves the way or other SMEs to enter into similar contractswith the advantage o that learning.

Learning rom the bid process rom the perspective o athird party lead was provided to Ogem to aid reinement outure bid processes. Recommended improvements rom thecontractual arrangement have also been developed to assistwith uture collaborative working between a DNO and a thirdparty SME.

INDEPENDENT PROJECT REVIEWS

SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR FUTURE

INNOVATION PROJECTS

The independent project review undertaken by Ricardowas highly valued by the project partners, as observationsand recommendations by an unbiased source can identiyareas where change is genuinely required. It can also offeran impartial, holistic view o a project such as My ElectricAvenue, with stakeholders ranging rom an industry regulator

to an SME. For these beneits, it is strongly recommendedthat such an approach be considered or uture innovationprojects where the size and scope is sufficient to justiy theextra expenditure.

OTHER LEARNING FROM THE PROJECT

ESPRIT TECHNOLOGY WASSUCCESSFUL IN CURTAILINGCHARGING WHEN NECESSARY,AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TOPREVENT ROADS BEING DUG UPAND NEW HIGHER CAPACITYCABLES INSTALLED.


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SUCCESSES OF THE PROJECT

MY ELECTRIC AVENUEHAS BEEN EXCEPTIONALLYEFFECTIVE AND GOODVALUE FOR MONEY.SSEPD.

Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distributionhosted the project, contracting EA Technology tolead the My Electric Avenue LCN Fund Tier 2 project,as a trusted and inormed third party delivery body.The success o customer engagement, recruitmentand milestone delivery have met all expectations.EA Technology has created an excellent mix opartners and relevant expertise to the I2EV (MyElectric Avenue) project, with a hands-on deliveryapproach that makes this project exceptionallyeffective and good value or money. I commendEA Technologys expertise in partnership brokering,customer engagement and dissemination olearning outcomes to any DNO or organisationseeking a dynamic, customer and output-orientedproject partner or lead.

Stewart A ReidFuture Networks ManagerScottish & Southern Energy Power Distribution

Northern Powergrid was pleased to be asked tosupport this project. The learning is essentialto enable the uture connection o clusters oelectric vehicles to some networks without theneed or costly and disruptive cable or substationreplacement works.

Andrew SpencerTrading & InnovationNorthern Powergrid

I was approached by EA Technology when the My

Electric Avenue project was at bid d evelopmentstage; impressed by the clear strategy that EATechnology had or the venture, it was a natural itor Nissan to partner on this pioneering trial project.The project wholly aligns with Nissans vision toplace the UK at the oreront o the EV movement.The bottom up approach to customer engagementhas proved particularly impressive, and is reapinggreat results; adopting a new Nissan LEAF seemsto be contagious. EA Technologys combinationo project management, technical and p eopleexpertise make it a company worth doing businesswith.

Olivier PaturetGeneral Manager Zero Emission StrategyNissan Europe SAS

THE BOTTOM UP APPROACHTO CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENTHAS PROVED PARTICULARLYIMPRESSIVE, AND ISREAPING GREAT RESULTS.NISSAN.

THE LEARNING IS ESSENTIALTO ENABLE THE FUTURE

CONNECTION OF CLUSTERSOF ELECTRIC VEHICLES TOSOME NETWORKS.NORTHERN POWERGRID

You guys have done such a antastic piece o workwith this project... it is antastic as it is real... it isliterally the best vehicle charging project in the UK,i not the world.

Martin HaleABB

Martin is Head o Marketing and Sales, UK &Ireland, or ABBs EV Charging InrastructureProduct Group. My Electric Avenue has engagedwith Martin at various points along its projectjourney.

THE BEST VEHICLECHARGING PROJECT IN THE

UK, IF NOT THE WORLD.ABB

When we embarked on the My Electric Avenuemission o recruiting participants onto thetechnical trials it seemed like an impossible task toachieve. But the act that so many people aroundthe country wanted to take part in the projectwas truly amazing and was certainly beyondanyones expectations. Not only has this been agroundbreaking project, the results o which willreally inorm the uture o EV manuacturers andelectrical network management, but it has alsoraised awareness and promoted EVs more widely,which can only be beneicial to the electric vehicleindustry. The proessionalism in project leadershipand the cooperation amongst the partnershipestablished has really been signiicant in thesuccess o the project, the learning and its results.

Lois WarneZero Carbon Futures

My Electric Avenue project has brought ourcommunity together under a common purpose and its been great un inding p eople to take part inour cluster. Ive been out dropping lealets throughdoors, talking to people in the shops to get themon board and then driving a Nissan LEAF at thetest drive event really sealed the deal or us. Itmakes sense in so many ways environmentally,inancially and Ive even learnt a bit about thelocal electricity network.

Julie SkevingtonMy Electric Avenue Trial ParticipantSouth Shields

THE FACT THAT SO MANYPEOPLE AROUND THECOUNTRY WANTED TO TAKEPART IN THE PROJECT WASTRULY AMAZING.ZERO CARBON FUTURES

IT MAKES SENSE IN SO MANYWAYS ENVIRONMENTALLY,FINANCIALLY AND IVEEVEN LEARNT A BIT ABOUTTHE LOCAL ELECTRICITYNETWORK.JULIE SKEVINGTON,TRIAL PARTICIPANT

The recruitment o 100 members o the public inlocal clusters around Britain to lease an electric caror 18 months or the technical trials was seen asa signiicant challenge at the start o the project.However due to the creation o a communicationsstrategy which ocused on inding local championsto lead on recruiting other cluster partici pants,along with effective support rom many My ElectricAvenue partners including EA Technology, Fleetdriveand Zero Carbon Futures, the recruitment targetswere exceeded, and within the timescale.

WEVE NOT SEENCOMMUNICATIONS AS

WELL MANAGED FOR ANYOTHER PROJECT.RICHARD HARTSHORN, SSEPD


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MY ELECTRIC AVENUE PROJECTPARTNERS AND ROLES

ottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution Limited,d its subsidiaries Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission,uthern Electric Power Distribution and Scottish Hydro

ectric Power Distribution, are all members o the SSEoup. Through its Power Distribution business, it transmitsd distributes electricity to over 3.7 million businesses,mes and offices in central southern England and therth o Scotland. It owns and is responsible or maintaininge electricity transmission network and two electricity

stribution networks, comprising 106,000 substationsd 130,000km o overhead lines and underground cablesross one third o the UK. SSEPD has been the lead/undingstribution Network Operator (DNO) or My Electric Avenue,oviding:

Access to network areas in the UK or undertaking the trialsd associated supportLiaison between EA Technology and Ogem

Role o project treasurerProject management support.

ww.ssepd.co.uk

COTTISH AND SOUTHERN

NERGY POWER DISTRIBUTION

Automotive Comms has been responsible or establishing,directing and carrying out the marketing, communicationsand PR strategy or My Electric Avenue.

www.automotivecomms.co.uk

AUTOMOTIVE COMMS

De Montort University has been responsible or socio-economic modelling. This included carrying out a literaturesurvey o existing knowledge o customer behaviour withregard to the use o EVs, the acceptance o direct control oappliances and identiying the types o data that need to becollected. De Montort University has also been responsibleor conducting pre, during and post-trial interviews with trialparticipants, analysing and collating this inormation orsharing with Ricardo or the independent assessment.

www.dmu.ac.uk

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

Northern Powergrid is the electricity distribution businessor North East England, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.The company is responsible or delivering power saely andreliably to the 3.9 million electricity domestic and businesscustomers in this area and operates through its subsidiaries,Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Ltd and Northern Powergrid(Yorkshire) plc. Northern Powergrids network consists omore than 31,000 substations, 29,000 kilometres o overheadline and 62,000 kilometres o underground cable, coveringan area o more than 25,000 square kilometres. NorthernPowergrid has supplied access to substations supplying thetrial clusters located in its licence areas, low voltage circuitinormation and design analysis to support the establishmento the clusters, and engineering resource to install, set up andmonitor the Esprit equipment.

www.northernpowergrid.com

NORTHERN POWERGRID

Fleetdrive Electric is the UKs leading lease provider oultra-low emission vehicles. It is a division o FleetdriveManagement Ltd. which provides cars, vans and associatedservices to SMEs in the UK. Fleetdrive Electric managed thedelivery and support o the EVs to trial participants in boththe technical and social trials, and supported customerengagement or the trials.

www.fleetdrive-electric.com

FLEETDRIVE ELECTRICSustainable car and van leasing

A Technology is an employee-owned organisation offeringgh-tech instruments, sofware, electrical services andchnical consultancy to the operators o power networksound the world. Through its Future Networks division itlivers innovative end-to-end solutions to acilitate the

troduction o low carbon technologies to uture prooectricity networks, resulting in lower cost connections,ompt adoption and reduced risk to business. EAchnology has been the third party lead delivery body

r My Electric Avenue providing the ollowing input:

The technology or the trialsProject management, including management o theoject inancesPartner/supplier contract management and liaison.

ww.eatechnology.com

A TECHNOLOGY

Nissan has one o the most comprehensive Europeanpresences o any overseas manuacturer, employing morethan 17,600 staff across locally-based design, research &development, manuacturing, logistics and sales & marketingoperations. Nissan provided the LEAF electric vehiclesrequired or the trials at preerential rates, enabling asigniicant discount over normal lease costs or the durationo the trials. Nissan allowed EA Technology access to internalrecording o data rom EV data loggers or use in modelling.

www.nissan.co.uk

NISSAN

Zero Carbon Futures is a consultancy in North East Englandset up to deliver a range o local, national and internationalprogrammes all geared up to advance the region as aEuropean leader in the production o low carbon vehicles.Zero Carbon Futures primarily managed the supply andinstallation o charging points and customer-endo the Esprit technology at participating premises. It alsosupported customer engagement throughout the projectsliecycle.

www.zerocarbonfutures.co.uk

ZERO CARBON FUTURES

The University o Manchester has been responsible ornetwork modelling. This includes evaluating initial trialso the technology, carrying out a literature survey o theestimates o the additional load that EVs will cause, thepotential or load shifing, and analysing the data romthe trials to produce a network model based on the datacollected. The University o Manchester has also beenresponsible or sharing the modelling data with Ricardo orindependent assessment.

www.manchester.ac.uk

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Ricardo has been responsible or the independent evaluationo the project and the technology. This included reviewingthe approach and progress o establishing trials and alsoevaluating the validity o technical trials conclusions.

www.ricardo.com

RICARDO


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Contact [email protected] EA Technology LimitedCapenhurst Technology ParkCapenhurst,Cheshire CH1 6ES0151 339 4181www.eatechnology.comTwitter: @MyElectricAveFor more detailed technical learning visit:www.myelectricavenue.ino

MY ELECTRIC AVENUE HAS SHOWN

THAT LOCAL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

IN SOME AREAS WILL STRUGGLE

TO COPE WITH THE CHARGING OF

ELECTRIC CARS (WITH 3.5 KW

CHARGING) WHEN 40-70% OF

PROPERTIES CONNECTED TO A

SUBSTATION FEEDER HAVE EVS.

ELECTRIC CARS INCLUDE PLUG-IN

HYBRIDS AS WELL AS PURE EVS,

AND FORECASTS SUGGEST THAT THEMAJORITY OF NEW CARS ON SALE

BY 2040 WILL HAVE SOME FORM OF

PLUG-IN CAPABILITY.

THE FUTURE

My Electric Avenue has also shown that the issue oinsufficient capacity can be managed by Esprit technology.However, action needs to be taken soon.

The project has highlighted the act that communicationtakes place within the energy industry, and within theautomotive industry, but little communication takes placebetween the two, and that is exactly what needs to happento successully address the issue o lack o capacity in somelocal electricity networks or electric vehicle charging.

Thereore as a legacy project, EA Technology will beacilitating cross-industry dialogue in the orm o anAutomotive-Utilities Working Group to ensure that thelessons learnt rom My Electric Avenue are transormed intoaction: raising awareness o the issues and solutions, andexploring collaborative working opportunities. Organisations

with an interest in this area are welcome to get involved;please speak to EA Technology via the contact details below.

EA Technology would like to thank al l project partners ortheir dedication, enthusiasm and hard work in making MyElectric Avenue a success story. Huge thanks also go to allcluster champions and communities taking part withoutthe engagement o these customers in the project, therewould be no Electric Avenues.

My Electric Avenue is the public identity or the LowCarbon Networks Fund Tier 2 project I2EV InnovationSquared: managing unconstrained EV connections.The ormal title I2EV Innovation Squared: managingunconstrained EV connections is used or contractualand Ogem reporting purposes.

PROJECT LEADS PROJECT PARTNERS

My Electric Avenue has received support from Ofgemthrough the Low Carbon Networks (LCN) Fund.

Sustainable car and van leasing

CO2 SAVINGS FROM THE PROJECT THANK YOU

Another success o My Electric Avenue has been the CO2

emissions savings rom over 200 trial participants drivingelectric cars rather than petrol or diesel-engined vehicles.The Nissan LEAF has zero tailpipe emissions in terms o bothCO

2emissions and emissions such as NOx and particulates

that impact upon local air quality, and even i you takeinto account the CO

2emitted rom the UKs average energy

generation mix used to charge the EVs, each Nissan LEAF

has saved around 2,598 kgCO2e o CO2e emissions per car thats a saving o around 550,000 kgCO2e or all the cars on

My Electric

Avenues trials compared to their diesel-engined equivalents.*In addition, some participants installed solar panels duringthe course o the trial, a decision that was in part, inluencedby the project, so urthering the uptake o low carbontechnology.

* Carbon calculations based on data collected rom 213 cars over the length o the trial

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My Electric Avenue (I2EV) - Project Summary Report