Sorry dev if I am stepping on your toes - but I went in and modified the errors for "fuel_category" to "fuel_categories" with a few other changes and it works for me now. I just went ahead and uploaded them to a github here: https://github.com/YourThoughts/Factorio
I don't use github often, but I believe you can open the source code and download. replace those two files in the even_distribution --> Scripts folder.
(Windows Key + R and paste this in) %appdata%\Factorio\mods
So far when loading my save I have tested it a few times now without any errors or crashes. As always, just make sure to create a backup of the Even Distribution zip file, just in case :)