Smart EV Charging Hub with hybrid DC chargers (SEVHub)

该项目将开发一个集成在智能微电网中的创新智能电动汽车充电中心(SEVHub)，该中心可以安装在没有路边停车的家庭居住社区、公众商业社区、员工和游客的商业社区、以及车队充电组织(如医院救护车和超市送货车辆)等。SEVHub包括一个中央电动汽车充电柜，它可以安装在存放智能微电网设备的集装箱或机房内；几个(通常是三个)电动汽车充电站，每个充电站都有二维码供那些有智能手机应用程序的人使用；以及一个中央信用卡支付站，供那些没有智能手机应用程序的人使用。这使得SEVHub成为一个低成本的解决方案。智能微电网中的SEVHub可以直接利用太阳能光伏发电和/或电池能量控制电动汽车充电，由剩余的太阳能光伏发电和/或非高峰低成本电网电力充电，提高所有者/运营商的经济效益，同时为用户提供低成本充电并支持电网。该项目将开发云后台，供运营商运行SEVHub，并为用户开发智能手机应用程序，以指导电动汽车充电和支付。云的可扩展性和灵活的存储能力将有助于性能分析，人工智能和机器/深度学习可以在云上运行，以提供业务洞察和提高竞争力。该项目将进行市场研究，以确定合适的系统规格，确定潜在的安装地点，包括住宅和商业社区、企业和公共组织，咨询公众、利益相关者和当局，该项目将对ZEV产生重大影响，因为该创新将使电动汽车直接利用太阳能光伏和非高峰电网电力以最高的电力效率充电，平衡电网，提高电网运行效率。该项目将在促进道路交通电气化和智能微电网实施方面发挥关键作用，并通过减少碳排放和改善空气质量对气候变化和环境可持续发展产生非常积极的影响。该项目将创造和保障就业机会，有利于英国经济，对电网基础设施规划和运营产生重大影响。该项目汇集了英国产业界和学术界在智能电动汽车充电和智能能源管理方面的领先专业知识，并将为大专院校学生制作一手教育材料，以进一步促进人们对ZEV和智能微电网系统解决方案的兴趣和接受。

The project will develop an innovative smart EV charging hub (SEVHub) integrated within a smart microgrid which can be installed in residential communities for households without off-street parking, commercial communities for public, businesses and organisations for employees and visitors, and organisations for fleet charging (such as hospital ambulances and supermarket delivery vehicles), etc.The SEVHub comprises a central EV charging cabinet, which can be installed in a container or plant room housing the smart microgrid equipment, a few (typically three) EV charging stations, each with a QR code for those with smartphone APP to use, and a central card payment station for those without smartphone APP to use. This makes SEVHub a low-cost solution.The SEVHub within the smart microgrid enables controlled EV charging directly by solar PV power and/or battery energy, which is charged by surplus solar PV power and/or off-peak low-cost grid electricity, enhances owner's/operator's economic benefits, whilst providing low-cost charging for users and supporting the electricity grid.The project will develop cloud back office for operators to run the SEVHub, and smartphone APP for users to instruct EV charging and payment. The cloud's scalability and flexible storage capacity will facilitate performance analysis, AI and machine/deep learning can be run on the cloud to provide business insights and increase competitiveness.The project will conduct market research to determine suitable system specifications, identify potential installation sites, including residential and commercial communities, businesses and public organisations, consult the public, stakeholders and authorities, so that the solution is fit for purpose.The project will have a major impact on ZEV because the innovation will enable EV charging directly from solar PV and off-peak grid power at the highest power efficiency and balance the electricity grid and improve the grid operation efficiency.The project will play a key role in facilitating road transport electrification and smart microgrid implementation, and have very positive impact on climate change and environmental sustainability through carbon emission reduction and air quality improvement.The project will generate and safeguard jobs and benefit the UK economy, have major impact on the electricity grid infrastructure planning and operation, facilitate time-of-use electricity tariff.The project brings together UK's leading expertise in smart EV charging and smart energy management from both industry and academic sectors and will generate first-hand education materials for universities and colleges students to further facilitate the interest in and uptake of both ZEV and smart microgrid system solutions.