I would like to welcome you all to the kickoff meeting for IEEE standard P1809 which is on the Grid Infrastructure for Electric Sourced Transportation. We have several presenters from various organizations today that will discuss various aspects about work they have been performing in the area of electric sourced transportation. While the presentations today will be informative to everyone, our main goal in having this kickoff meeting is to attract volunteers to help us develop the standard. So I would like to ask that as you listen to the presenters and see what we are developing, please consider volunteering to help develop the standard. We need people with expertise in the various transportation technologies as well as the electric grid. Even if you do not have this expertise, we need people to help research work and editors to write the standard in the IEEE template. We also need leaders for some of the groups that you will hear about in the presentation on the working group structure. Since this is the first meeting of this IEEE Standards Association working group, we will be developing the standard after today. So please, consider helping to form this standard which is so important to the utility industry and society as a whole today.
I would like to give you a little background on how we got to the point of having this meeting today. In September of 2008, the IEEE SA solicited working group chairs to participate in a new Study Committee, SCC21, which was looking at methods to reduce global climate change through the electric industry. There were 3 main subgroups that came out of this. One of these three groups was called the Power and Manufacturing Sector Subgroup or PMSS. This group formed several task forces to look at methods to reduce emissions from transportation, industrial processes, residential, electric grid infrastructure, grid operation, generation, and energy storage. The group began having biweekly meetings in January of 2009. The goal was given a 6 month study period and then began to develop a PAR in July of 2009.
The initial PAR included important aspects from all of the task forces. However, it was felt that the Scope of the PAR should be narrowed to focus on one area first and develop a complete document before addressing other aspects of the PMSS. In making the determination as to which area should be focused on, statistics from the US EPA on emissions were used. This data showed that the emissions from the transportation industry were nearly the same as those from coal plants. To be effective in quickly reducing emissions, it was felt that the transportation fleet would have a faster turnover than the more expensive generating facilities which take much longer to pay off and to build. This led to the decision to focus on the transportation industry first.
There were several other important factors which led to this choice that were discussed. The term energy independence was discussed. Since this is an international standard, energy independence may not be an issue in some countries. However, the group agreed that the dependence of various countries on a finite source which was being used more by some developing countries such as China and India could not be sustainted indefinitely.
The economic impact of this dependence on a finite resource of emerging and developed nations was also discussed. At the time, gasoline had risen to around five dollars a gallon in the US and even higher in European countries. It had led to strikes in Europe, violence in some countries, and even mass layoffs and significant cost increases in other commodities in the US. It was pointed out that soon after these economic effects, the number of foreclosures significantly increased and led to the economic recession that the world is still recovering from today.
Another concern discussed was national security in countries that depend on this finite resource. Since the resource cannot be sustained indefinitely, it may cause instability among nations at some point in the future.
While all of these concerns are important, the main goal of SCC21 was the effect of emissions on global climate change. During the 6 month study period in 2009, it became apparent to the group that the issue of the effects of emissions on climate change is very controversial. Because of this, the other factors became the key to a group consensus on narrowing the scope to concentrate on the transportation industry. It was felt that whether people agreed with the effect of global climate change or not, they could agree to support this standard based on the other factors.
After the PAR was accepted in September of 2009, the PMSS began preparing for the standard. Because the group wanted international participation and support from those involved with plugin hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, and electric trolley buses as well as the electric power generation, electric power transmission, and electric power distribution areas, it was felt that a kickoff meeting similar that held by the IEEE P2030 standard group on smart grid would be helpful.
To avoid some of the pitfalls of the P2030 group which submitted it’s PAR in December of 2008 and held it’s kickoff meeting in June of 2009, the group decided to develop an outline for the standard first. This outline was then used to develop a breakdown of the working group needed to develop the different sections of the standard and to give them direction on what they should concentrate on writing. As for the meeting schedule, a schedule similar to that of P2030 will be discussed at the end of the presentations. Because of the financial requirements of meeting in person, the group will concentrate on making all of the meetings available to anyone participating through electronic mediums free of charge to the participants.
To make this meeting a success, the group solicited targeted organizations that have been involved in the subject of the standard to provide 1 day of presentations. The group also solicited those organizations and other organizations around the world involved in this area to send out announcements of this meeting to their members. These organizations included the IEEE International Committee on Earth Observation, the IEEE Power Engineering Society, the IEEE Vehicle transportation Society, the IEEE Industrial Applications Society, the IEEE Power Electronics Society, the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, the IEEE Study Committee 21, the IEEE Study Committee 40, the IEEE USA, the Electric Power Research Institute or EPRI, the national rural electric coop association or NRECA, the American Public Transportation Association or APTA, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners or NARUC, the World Electric Vehicle Association or WEVA, the European Association for Battery, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles or AVERE, the electric vehicle association in Portugal APEVE, the Electric Vehicle Association of Asia Pacific or EVAAP, the Light Electric Vehicle Association or LEVA, the Society of Automotive Engineers or SAE, the Edison Electric Institute or EEI, the British Trolleybus Society or BTS, the Electric Auto Association or EAA, and CEATI in Canada.
I would like to briefly go through the agenda and thank all of our presenters. The first presenter is Dr. Siri Jodha Khalsa who will discuss IEEE SCC40 which the standard P1809 falls under. Next will be Dr. Russell Lefevre who was a recent president of IEEE USA which did a lot of work in this area. Next will be Mr. Larry Clark who the President of the IEEE PES appointed to represent the IEEE PES. Next will be Paul Forquer who is the secretary of the Trnasit Power Subcommittee of the IEEE VTS which has been working on standards related to the mass transit portion of the standard. He will be followed by Dr. Charles Herget who is a past president of the IEEE ITSS and has been referred to as the founder of the society. Next will be Arindam Maitra who has been involved with the EPRI electric vehicle research and has given a lot of support to this effort including the webconferencing today and contacts with other organizations.
We will have a break at this point to allow people to have lunch. It is hard to compromise on a time around the world for a break, much less the US. However, a time was chosen for a late lunch on the east coast of the US and an early lunch on the west coast. Please connect again after lunch. This will be a 1 hour break.
After lunch, Tony Markel of NREL will discuss the things that NREL has been doing in this area. This will be followed by Eric Simmon of NIST who is the leader of the NIST priority action plan 11 or PAP11 which deals with transportation. He will be followed by Gery Kissel and Rich Scholer who will be representing the SAE and chair standards groups related to this topic. They will be followed by Martin Schroeder who will represent APTA which deals with the mass transit section of the standard. Mr. Steven Rosenstock of EEI will discuss the subject from an EEI perspective and Andrew Cotter will discuss the subject from an NRECA perspective. Unfortunately, we were unable to get an APPA perspective. The final presenter will be Mr. Mike Kipness who is the IEEE SA contact for the working group.
After these presentations, the working group will be discussed. The vice chair of the working group, Mary Reidy of National Grid, will go over the organizational chart for the working group. The chair of the working group, myself, will then cover the draft outline. The IEEE SA contact will then have a call for working group members which will be followed by a discussion of the meeting schedule and the next meeting by the vice chair of the working group.
The concluding remarks will be from Dr. Paul Eglitis from the IEEE ICEO. While not a presenter today, this effort owes a lot of thanks to Dr. Jay Pearlman who has been instrumental in getting this organization going and providing high level support throughout the process
The standard itself will go through characterizing the different transportation technologies and describing the changes on the electric grid necessary to accommodate various penetrations of these new loads. Because of various barriers to mass penetration of these technologies today, research that is needed or being performed will be discussed. Finally, a roadmap will be developed to help utilities prepare for the eventual mass penetration of these new loads in a manner that allows the supply to meet the demand as the demand increases. Because of the long time necessary to build new nuclear plants, transmission lines, and increase the capacity of the entire distribution network, utilities have to be able to plan and prepare for these new loads in order to be able to supply them. There is a lot of work going on around the world which should soon increase these new loads. Because of this, it is parmount that the utilities understand what is coming, when they need to prepare for it, and how they can prepare for it in a way that minimizes the effect to the environment in a financially responsible way.
I would like to go through the PAR and discuss it a little before continuing with the first presenter. This PAR is available on the IEEE website. We will be posting the presentations today and the PAR on a public section of P1809 on the SCC40 website as well. The address will be sent to everyone that participated today when the webpages are online.
I will read the Scope, Purpose, and Need for the project in the PAR along with 3 slides showing them. In the need section of the PAR, I will emphasize the time issue associated with construction of infrastructure to support the potential new large loads.