What is the challenge that is being addressed?

The pilot involves the following 2 entities: HERON is the largest private energy supplier in Greece and provides electricity to multiple home or businesses that are equipped with EV charging stations. HERON supported by PARITY will collect data on the EV charging behaviour of drivers to identify average EV charging transaction duration, frequency of chargers per vehicle, time of day that most charges occur, types and capacity of chargers used. HERON aims to adapt its current retail energy offerings to clients that have an EV station in their premises and develop algorithms to better predict the load distribution from its consumers. PARITY will identify patterns in the charging transactions in publicly accessible charging stations to develop incentives for drivers to distribute charging load evenly across public charging stations and time intervals. In that way the public charging stations will be managed more efficiently, waiting times will be reduced and flexibility of the grid will be improved.

What is the AI solution the project plans to implement?

Patterns regarding time distribution and attributes of EV charging transactions in private and public charging stations will be identified. This will enable HERON to develop algorithms to better predict impeding changes in retail client load distribution due to the increasing numbers of EVs in Greece. PARITY will utilise the dataset to develop algorithms to predict availability of publicly available charging stations, based on data collected for time distribution and average duration of charge transactions. Using that data PARITY will incorporate variable pricing for charging transactions in stations it owns/operates. Variable pricing algorithms will enable charge point operators to utilise charging stations more efficiently and even-out load across stations and time intervals.

Who will help implement this solution?

This pilot is implemented within the framework of the “I-NΕRGΥ: Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Energy” Project. The I-NERGY Project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101016508.

The responsible partner for this Use Case are HERON (https://www.heron.gr/) and PARITY (https://evloader.com/el).

Learn more about I-NERGY pilots here: https://i-nergy.eu/pilots