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@article{Munkhammar2015439,
title = "Household electricity use, electric vehicle home-charging and distributed photovoltaic power production in the city of Westminster ",
journal = "Energy and Buildings ",
volume = "86",
number = "",
pages = "439 - 448",
year = "2015",
note = "",
issn = "0378-7788",
doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.10.006",
url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778814008263",
author = "Joakim Munkhammar and Justin D.K. Bishop and Juan Jose Sarralde and Wei Tian and Ruchi Choudhary",
keywords = "Household electricity use",
keywords = "Electric vehicle home-charging",
keywords = "Distributed photovoltaic power production",
keywords = "Self-consumption ",
abstract = "Abstract In this paper we investigate household electricity use, electric vehicle (EV) home-charging and distributed photovoltaic (PV) power production in a case study for the city of Westminster, London. Since it is economically beneficial to maximize \{PV\} power self-consumption in the \{UK\} context the power consumption/production patterns with/without introducing \{EV\} home-charging on the household level is investigated. Additionally, since this might have an effect on the electricity use on an aggregate of households a large-scale introduction of \{EV\} charging and \{PV\} power production in the entire city of Westminster is also investigated. Household electricity consumption and \{EV\} home-charging are modeled with a Markov-chain model. \{PV\} power production is estimated from solar irradiation data from Meteonorm for the location of Westminster combined with a model for photovoltaic power production on tilted planes. The available rooftop area is estimated from the \{UK\} map geographic information database. \{EV\} home-charging increases the household electricity use mainly during evening with a maximum during winter whereas \{PV\} produces power during daytime with maximum during summer. On the household level this mismatch introduces variability in power consumption/production, which is shown to be less prominent for the large-scale scenario of the entire city of Westminster. "
}