Spatiotemporal Impact of Electric Vehicles in Mitigating Damages from Destructive Storms

The impact of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on the grid and the benefit of utilizing them as a source of energy to increase the grid’s reliability and resilience in severe weather conditions are shown in this study. This case study is the winter storm Uri that happened in February 2021 in Texas and impacted a large part of the United States. The studied grid is a realistic 7000-bus electric grid on the Texas footprint to mimic the ERCOT system without revealing confidential data. The results show that using EVs as power sources can help avoid outages and the necessity of load shedding in similar events.