Hourly electricity demand from an electric road system – A Swedish case study
Journal article, 2018

This study investigates the hourly electricity demand related to implementing an electric road system (ERS) on five Swedish roads with the highest traffic flows that connect the three largest cities in Sweden. The study also compares the energy demands and the CO2mitigation potentials of the ERS with the use of carbon-based fuels to obtain the same transportation work, and extrapolates the results to all Swedish European- and National- (E- and N) roads. The hourly electricity demand along the roads are derived by linking 12 available measurement points for hourly road traffic volumes with 12,553 measurement points for the average daily traffic flows along the roads. The results show that applying an ERS to the five Swedish roads with the highest traffic flows can reduce by ∼20% the levels of CO2emissions from the road transport sector, while increasing by less than 4% the hourly electricity demand on the peak dimensioning hour. Extending the ERS to all E- and N-roads would electrify almost half of the vehicle kilometers driven annually in Sweden, while increasing the load of the hourly peak electricity demand by only ∼10% on average.

E-highway

E-road

Electricity consumption

Peak demand

Electric vehicles

CO2 emissions

Author

D. Jelica

Viktoria Swedish ICT

Maria Taljegård

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Energy Technology

Ludwig Thorson

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Energy Technology

Filip Johnsson

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Energy Technology

Applied Energy

0306-2619 (ISSN) 18729118 (eISSN)

Vol. 228 141-148

Statens Vegvesen - The E39 as a renewable European electricity hub

Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) (2011 067932), 2014-03-17 -- 2018-12-31.

FoI plattform för elvägar

VINNOVA (2016-02930), 2016-09-15 -- 2019-12-31.

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

Energy Systems

DOI

10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.06.047

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