Enedis has selected 250 charging points for electric vehicles to conduct experiments in intelligent management of EV charging on roads, in companies and in individual homes at some fifteen sites in the south of France (Aix, Avignon, Saint-Tropez), the Lyon metropolitan area and the Paris region, from 2020 to 2022.
The aVEnir project, led by Enedis, was launched in September 2019 to experiment in real-life conditions with different situations for controlling electric vehicle charging stations and intelligent charging solutions, and to evaluate the opportunities offered by this technology, particularly in terms of network flexibility. The experiment is scheduled to last 3 years. The first analyses, “promising” according to the distribution network operator, show “several control possibilities that make it possible to attenuate and spread out power peaks over time, or even to completely cut them off”.
Initial experiments with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and synchronization of EV charging with photovoltaic production are planned by the end of 2020. The last phase of the project now involves selecting condominiums equipped with charging stations.
The project is supported within the framework of the Future Investment Plan of the French Agency for ecological transition (ADEME). 9 companies and 2 universities are partners: Renault, PSA, Schneider Electric, Total EV Charge, EDF (subsidiary Izivia), Dreev, Gireve, Trialog, Electric 55 Charging, Grenoble Alpes University and Aix Marseille University.