Solar-Assisted Electric Vehicle Charging Station Interim Report Metadata

Title

• Main Title Solar-Assisted Electric Vehicle Charging Station Interim Report

Creator

• Author: Lapsa, Melissa Voss
  Creator Type: Personal
  Creator Info: ORNL
• Author: Durfee, Norman
  Creator Type: Personal
  Creator Info: ORNL
• Author: Maxey, L Curt
  Creator Type: Personal
  Creator Info: ORNL
• Author: Overbey, Randall M
  Creator Type: Personal
  Creator Info: ORNL

Contributor

• Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

• Name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Place of Publication: United States

Date

• Creation: 2011-09-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been awarded $6.8 million in the Department of Energy (DOE) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds as part of an overall $114.8 million ECOtality grant with matching funds from regional partners to install 125 solar-assisted Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations across Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Memphis. Significant progress has been made toward completing the scope with the installation of 25 solar-assisted charging stations at ORNL; six stations at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and 27 stations at Nissan's Smyrna and Franklin sites, with three more stations under construction at Nissan's new lithium-ion battery plant. Additionally, the procurement process for contracting the installation of 34 stations at Knoxville, the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), and Nashville sites is underway with completion of installation scheduled for early 2012. Progress is also being made on finalizing sites and beginning installations of 30 stations in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Memphis by EPRI and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The solar-assisted EV charging station project has made great strides in fiscal year 2011. A total of 58 solar-assisted EV parking spaces have been commissioned in East and Middle Tennessee, and progress on installing the remaining 67 spaces is well underway. The contract for the 34 stations planned for Knoxville, UTK, and Nashville should be underway in October with completion scheduled for the end of March 2012; the remaining three Nissan stations are under construction and scheduled to be complete in November; and the EPRI/TVA stations for Chattanooga, Vanderbilt, and Memphis are underway and should be complete by the end of March 2012. As additional Nissan LEAFs are being delivered, usage of the charging stations has increased substantially. The project is on course to complete all 125 solar-assisted EV charging stations in time to collect meaningful data by the end of government fiscal year 2012. Lessons learned from the sites completed thus far are being incorporated and are proving to be invaluable in completion of the remaining sites.

Subject

• Keyword: Solar Energy
• Keyword: Epri
• STI Subject Categories: 14 Solar Energy
• STI Subject Categories: 33 Advanced Propulsion Systems
• Keyword: Ornl
• Keyword: Construction
• Keyword: Procurement
• Keyword: Electric-Powered Vehicles
• Keyword: Tennessee Valley Authority

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Report No.: ORNL/TM-2011/409
• Grant Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• DOI: 10.2172/1025858
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 1025858
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc833579