Evaluation of DER adoption in the presence of new load growth and energy storage technologies

This study considers potential system effects from the addition of Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) load to individually metered residential customers together with a concurrent market adoption of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and energy storage technologies to offset the associated load growth. To evaluate various renewable energy source conditions, a prototypical circuit is evaluated in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Orlando locations for both summer and winter loading conditions. Various load adoption scenarios are simulated by randomly assigning specified loading to target customer classes on the circuit.