Study the challenges facing the development of renewable energy and electricvehicles

Although renewable energy sources have their importance in providing clean environment friendlypower and are the necessary component of a viable energy mix for any distribution utility, they comewith certain challenges for grid stability and power quality which need to be handled effectively in orderto ensure reliable, economical and quality power supply to the consumer. On the other hand, electricvehicles are also posing a challenge to utilities like high system losses due to harmonics, overloadingof the distribution system during peak hours and premature degrading of the distribution equipment dueto over-heating because of loading, thus impacting the reliability of the power system (Salameh et al.,no date). However, if the electric vehicle charging is done through renewable energy it will be a winwinsituation for the distribution utilities, renewable energy generators and electric vehicle owners. Thepurpose of this paper is to enumerate the challenges faced by the Rajasthan electric utilities due tointegration of renewable sources especially wind generation and electric vehicles with the grid. Thestudy explores the possibility of using renewable energy to charge electric vehicles and other alternativesolutions