The load forecast of electric vehicles(EVs)is the foundation of planning and scheduling of charging stations. Compared with the traditional method
the load forecast method under big data has the feature that the data to be forecast is quickly observable
real time
etc. Hence the need of the corresponding adjustments of the load forecast methods. This paper first analyzes the data demand for charging station planning and scheduling
and then the ways of main data acquisition. Based on volume
variety
velocity data
each EV's start time
duration and location for charging
it will be possible to build the load model of a single EV. Furthermore
the total charging power of a charging station can be estimated by origin-destination(OD)flow statistics or adding up all the EV loads that are connected with its related transport line and node. Finally
a case study is given around the load forecast of EV station
and the load forecasting results from different load forecasting methods are compared. This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 61104090)and National Key Technologies R&D Program(No. 2013BAA01B01).