KYOCERA Selected to Test ADR System for Improving Electricity Management in Japan
September 13 2016 - 8:07AM
Business Wire
Test for a rapid and precise system to optimize
power supply and demand positions Kyocera as potential aggregator
for Japan’s new "negawatt" exchange market
Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) announced today that
it has been selected by the Institute of Applied Energy (IAE) in
Japan for a subsidized project to test an advanced automated demand
response (ADR) system featuring high speed and accuracy. The
project, which began last month, is part of a larger program
commenced by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
this year to promote the development of virtual power plants. With
ADR, electricity providers can automatically reduce consumers’
power usage in order to balance supply and demand, thus stabilizing
the electricity grid.
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Kyocera is testing its ADR system as an electricity aggregator
(intermediary company between electricity providers and end users)
by controlling equipment such as power generators, air-conditioning
equipment and storage systems at multiple supermarkets and
manufacturing facilities. Kyocera’s goal is to develop a rapid and
precise ADR system to help facilitate Japan’s “negawatt” exchange
market planned to open in 2017 — where end users can sell the
amount of electricity that they have saved based on power-saving
requests as “negawatts.”
Background
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, Japan has
sought to reduce reliance on large-scale electricity sources and
utilize renewable energy. Due to the significant growth in
renewables in recent years, the Japanese government began
supporting various projects to help establish technologies for
virtual power plants. If they can operate like a single large power
plant, integrating renewable power generation, energy storage and
demand-side measures such as demand response, then it can be used
as a solution to effectively utilize renewable energy. The
government program hopes to establish control technologies for
virtual power plants exceeding a total of 50MW during a period of
five years, and to encourage further implementation of renewable
energy.
With the aim of developing technologies to automatically
optimize electric power supply and demand, Kyocera has carried out
multiple demonstration projects on ADR in Japan. The company
participated in a collaborative demonstration with two other
companies at 25 sites from October 2014 to March 2015, confirming
the control flow applicable to demand response for residential
facilities to determine the amount of power saved. A second
demonstration project was carried out from April 2015 to March 2016
at 12 sites including supermarkets and manufacturing facilities to
validate the effectiveness of an automated system for fast demand
response and feasibility of a “negawatt” exchange.
Summary of Kyocera’s new Automated Demand Response test
project:
- Overview: Utilizing its
observations from past tests, the goal of Kyocera’s new
demonstration project is to develop and assess the effectiveness of
a rapid and precise ADR system, enabling the creation of
“negawatts” with no shortage and control of surplus “negawatts.”
Based on power-saving requests from TEPCO Power Grid, Incorporated,
Kyocera’s “POM SYSTEM®,” a comprehensive energy management system,
will control energy-related equipment installed at demonstration
sites to reduce the amount of electricity purchased. The system may
automatically operate power generators, turn down air-conditioning
equipment and discharge power from storage systems to reduce
electricity used.
- Time Period: August 2016 -
January 2017
- Field: 10 sites consisting of
supermarkets and manufacturing facilities in Japan’s eastern
region
Development of Kyocera’s Energy Business
Kyocera’s development as an electricity aggregator represents a
new milestone in the company’s energy business, which began from
the research on solar energy in 1975. Since then, the company has
expanded its energy business to the construction and operation of
solar power plants, and also markets lithium-ion batteries and Home
Energy Management Systems (HEMS) in Japan. In addition to this new
test, Kyocera recently participated in a separate collaborative
demonstration test with two other companies as an equipment
supplier, which integrates multiple homes as virtual power plants
(planned between July 2016 to February 2017 in the Tokyo, Chubu,
and Kyushu regions of Japan). By providing and managing residential
battery storage systems and HEMS in this test, the company aims to
further cultivate expertise and develop residential equipment
suitable for virtual power plants. Based on its comprehensive
strength, Kyocera will further expand its energy business, helping
to facilitate an energy-efficient society.
“POM SYSTEM” is a registered trademark of Kyocera Corporation in
Japan.
About KYOCERA
Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971)
(http://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of
the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine
ceramics (also known as “advanced ceramics”). By combining these
engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other
technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of solar power
generating systems, mobile phones, printers, copiers, electronic
components, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial
ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2016, the company’s net
sales totaled 1.48 trillion yen (approx. USD13.1 billion). Kyocera
appears on the 2014 and 2015 listings of the “Top 100 Global
Innovators” by Thomson Reuters, and is ranked #531 on Forbes
magazine’s 2016 “Global 2000” listing of the world’s largest
publicly traded companies.
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