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Solar Powered Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

A Sustainable Development
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Solar Powered Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development explores how integrating solar panels into parking lots can generate clean electricity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and provide essential shelter. The book highlights the growth of solar powered charging stations (SPCSs) to efficiently charge the rising number of electric vehicles (EVs), supporting a transition to sustainable transportation and modernized smart grids with energy storage. It discusses the potential impact of covering millions of parking spaces with solar panels, contributing significantly to electricity generation and improving urban air quality worldwide.
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This book is suitable for high school and college teachers and students, industry and government professionals, and community leaders interested in sustainable transport, clean energy, and climate change mitigation strategies.

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The Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted on 12 December 2015, is a voluntary effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reach the goals of this agreement, there is a need to generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions and to electrify transportation. An infrastructure of SPCSs can help accomplish both of these transitions. Globally, expenditures associated with the generation, transmission, and use of electricity are more than one trillion dollars per year. Annual transportation expenditures are also more than one trillion dollars per year. Almost everyone will be impacted by these changes in transportation, solar power generation, and smart grid developments. The benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions will differ with location, but all will be impacted.

This book is about the benefits associated with adding solar panels to parking lots to generate electricity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and provide shade and shelter from rain and snow. The electricity can flow into the power grid or be used to charge electric vehicles (EVs). Solar powered charging stations (SPCSs) are already in many parking lots in many countries of the world. The prices of solar panels have decreased recently, and about 30% of the new U.S. electrical generating capacity in 2015 was from solar energy. More than one million EVs are in service in 2016, and there are significant benefits associated with a convenient charging infrastructure of SPCSs to support transportation with electric vehicles.

Solar Powered Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development aims to share information on pathways from our present situation to a world with a more sustainable transportation system with EVs, SPCSs, a modernised smart power grid with energy storage, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and better urban air quality. Covering 200 million parking spaces with solar panels can generate about one-quarter of the electricity that was generated in 2014 in the United States. Millions of EVs with 20 to 50 kWh of battery storage can help with the transition to wind and solar power generation through owners responding to time-of-use prices.

Written for all audiences, high school and college teachers and students, those in industry and government, and those involved in community issues will benefit by learning more about the topics addressed in the book. Those working with electrical power and transportation, who will be in the middle of the transition, will want to learn about all of the challenges and developments that are addressed here.

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Esteemed educators and environmental experts praise the book for its accessibility and thorough treatment of both electric vehicles and solar charging infrastructure. It is valued as a comprehensive guide for communities tackling air quality, policymakers shaping low-carbon economies, and regulators advancing sustainable energy solutions.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815383710

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 December 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Illustration: 111 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Edited by Larry E. Erickson
  • Edited by Jessica Robinson
  • Edited by Gary Brase
  • Edited by Jackson Cutsor

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 182

About the Author

Larry E. Erickson is professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Hazardous Substance Research at Kansas State University. He is one of the principal investigators on the National Science Foundation REU award and the Black and Veatch award for the project "Building a World of Difference with Solar Powered Charge Stations for Electric Vehicles".

Jessica Robinson is a Class of 2016 graduate of the University of North Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science. She helped with the research and the book in the summers of 2014 and 2015 and the fall and winter of 2015.

Gary Brase is professor of psychological sciences at Kansas State University. His research includes personal decision making processes.

Jackson Cutsor is a Class of 2018 undergraduate student in electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who helped with the research and the book while he was at Kansas State University in the summer of 2015.

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