Rural electric providers are preparing for the potential impact that increased electric vehicle use could have on the electrical grid.
Head of Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative Sean Middleton tells Brownfield his company is investigating where there are shortfalls in hopes of preventing outages that are caused by the added stress from charging EVs.
“If they were spread out and they come in slowly, it’s not as big of a challenge, the problem is when there is a concentration and I think that where many operators have to evaluate parts of their system to see what that could do,” he explains.
