Power Quality issues in Solar Powered Fast Charging Station for Electric Vehicle: Comprehensive Review & Mitigation Measures

The growth in Seventh Sustainable goals with Electric Vehicles has been seen day by day due to limitations of traditional combustion engine especially which are having adverse impact on environment. Traditional method follows charging of EVs using the utility grid which leads to unbalance and burden on the existing distribution system. Hence, to address the issues and reduce the dependency on fossil fuel which are limitedly available and cause the air pollution, the charging of EV is encouraged with the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) such as solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, and biomass etc. Among all these energy sources, the solar photovoltaic (PV) based system is a best and feasible solution for EV charging. Also, the main barrier in EV adoption is more charging time and hence to rectify the issues many researchers have been in progress in EV solar powered Fast Charging Station (FCS). This paper reviewed about solar powered FCS and their power quality issues. Moreover, it describes the solution to power quality problems related to integration of PV system, EV and FCS with grid integration.