Scientific Machine Learning for Resilient EV-Grid Planning and Decision Support Under Extreme Events

TL;DR

This paper introduces a physics-informed machine learning framework to improve EV-grid resilience assessment under extreme demand events, bridging micro-level physics and city-scale planning for better risk management.

Contribution

It develops a five-stage framework combining physics knowledge transfer, demand forecasting, and stress simulation to enhance resilience evaluation and policy guidance for EV-grid systems.

Findings

Physics injection restores monotone stress-to-risk response.

Forecasting accuracy is significantly improved with physics-informed models.

Policy interventions reduce backlog by 79.1% and limit grid stress.

Abstract

Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure introduces complex challenges to urban distribution networks, particularly under extreme demand events. A critical barrier to resilience assessment is the scale gap between micro-level charging physics and city-scale planning: minute-resolution deliverability constraints remain invisible in hourly aggregated datasets, causing purely data-driven models to exhibit non-physical behavior in high-stress regimes. This paper develops a five-stage scientific machine learning framework bridging this gap through physics-informed knowledge transfer. Stage 1 learns a temperature-pressure deliverability surface from Swiss DC fast-charging telemetry with monotonicity constraints. Stage 2 performs cross-scale injection via anchored quantile mapping. Stage 3 deploys a dual-head spatio-temporal graph neural network for joint forecasting of demand and service loss rate. Stage 4 simulates backlog dynamics under stress shocks and evaluates policy interventions. Stage 5 couples service outcomes to distribution-grid stress via transformer loading analysis. Validation on the Shenzhen UrbanEV dataset demonstrates that physics injection restores monotone stress-to-risk response (Spearman correlation coefficient equals +1.0 versus -0.8 without injection) and improves forecasting accuracy. Under a representative demand shock, the hybrid policy reduces backlog by 79.1%, restores full service within the study horizon, and limits grid stress to only 2 additional hours. The derived resilience boundary m_crit as a function of epsilon approximately equals 1.7 minus 1.0 times epsilon, providing actionable guidance linking demand flexibility to maximum absorbable stress, enabling risk-aware emergency planning under extreme events.