A whole approach for the Electric Vehicle infrastructure in the Basque Country

This paper introduces MUGIELEC's approach and objectives and presents its last results for a proposal for the exploitation of the infrastructure for charging Electric Vehicles. One main goal is the management of information and knowledge, in order to provide adequate added value services and pave the way for a Business Models analysis. During MUGIELEC development, the communication and protocols among the different players and systems, mainly Electric Vehicle, Supply Equipment, Services Provider and System Operator, have been implemented. For these three years the manufacturers and Companies involved are designing and developing different products according to an integrated and spreadable concept. At the end of 2012 a full demonstration will be realized. Some Supply Equipment by different manufacturers, corresponding to residential, car-park and fast charging stations, are to be controlled from an Operation Dispatch corresponding to the Service Provider, which communicates with the infrastructure and carries out the whole management. All this approach is intended, and so will be the outcomes from the demonstration, to come up with an open platform that should help assess the economic feasibility of valuable technical solutions for integrated intelligent charging infrastructure for Electric Vehicles, also providing advice for Standardization.