Grid cooperative, distributed real-time energy system
【Lead examiners : Professor Manabu Ihara, Professor Koichi Shinoda, Professor Junichi Imura】
Increasing the ratio of electrical power derived from renewable energy sources and thereby helping to control global warming will require not only the development of device technologies but also energy system technologies. Energy device technologies includ renewable energy conversion such as solar cells and energy storage such as batteries or hydrogen energy storage. Energy system technologies consistof energy system technologies that will enable the mass low-cost public implementation of variable renewable energy (VRE).
Our research involves designing and developing a diverse component-integrated/evolved grid-cooperative/distributed real time smart energy system that incorporates various energy devices, data and control methods.
This system allows control based on a wide variety of indices—such as on efficiency improvements and comfort improvements—within distributed networks, and stably provides electrical power in cooperation with existing grids. Our efforts to construct the “next-generation Ene-Swallow—an information platform based on energy big data—” are being advanced through an industry-academia research collaboration, with Tokyo Tech’s Ookayama Campus as its proving ground.