Seattle City Light

Sponsor:

Project Name:

Managed EV Charging

Students:

James Clough
Kelsey Foster
Reese O’Craven
Tran Quach
Carmen Twitchell

Faculty Adviser:

Daniel Kirschen, Donald W. and Ruth Mary Close Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Jan Whittington, Associate Professor, Urban Design & Planning

About the Project:

The student team worked to write a transportation electrification plan including solar generation for UW Transportation and for Recology, as well as develop a software tool to schedule and allocate charging for an EV fleet that meets operational requirements while optimizing the demand for solar grid capacity. The software tool and transportation electrification designs will help UW transportation achieve its goal of reducing the university’s carbon footprint to 45% in 2030 and help Recology electrify its fleet efficiently in the near future.