Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) appear to offer a promising option for mitigating greenhouse
emission. However, uncoordinated PEV charging can weaken the reliability of power
systems. The proper accommodation of PEVs in a power grid imposes many challenges on
system planning and operations. This work aims to investigate optimal PEV coordination
strategies with cost-benefit analysis. In Part I, we first present a new method to calculate the
charging load of PEVs with a modified Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method for handling …

Continuing with a set of enabling techniques for the optimal coordination of plug-in electric
vehicles (PEVs) in Part I, we present a case study in this paper using techniques based on
the data collected in the Beijing–Tianjin–Tangshan Region (BTTR) China to discover
optimal PEV coordination strategies and assess the attractiveness of these strategies. In Part
II, we first present the charging characteristics for different categories of PEVs in BTTR and
predict the optimal seasonal daily loads with PEVs under different PEV penetration levels …