Nine Japanese Companies Launch Japan-U.S. 德赢ac米兰vwin, New Mexico

They cut the tape and opened 德赢ac米兰vwin facility.

• Shimizu Corporation
• Toshiba Corporation
• Sharp Corporation
• Meidensha Corporation
• Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
• 德赢ac米兰vwin., Ltd.
• The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd.
  
  

Tokyo, May 21, 2012 - On May 17 (U.S. time), nine Japanese companies launched a demonstration study for the Albuquerque Business District Smart Grid Demonstration Project (hereafter "the Project") consigned to them by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), to be carried out as part of its Japan-U.S. 德赢ac米兰vwin. The demonstration study will continue for two years, ending in March 2014. An opening ceremony for the demonstration facility took place in Albuquerque to mark the occasion, the many attendees including officials of New Mexico and the city of Albuquerque, the NEDO chairman, and presidents and executives of the nine participating Japanese companies.

德赢ac米兰vwin demonstration study will be conducted using an existing three-story commercial building with approximately 7,000 square meters (m²) in total floor space and an electric power load near 400 kilowatts (kW). A micro grid (to supply power from the demand side) will be installed in the building from power sources consisting of a 50kW photovoltaic (PV) power generation system, a 240kW gas-engine generator, 80kW fuel cells and a 90kW battery system. By controlling each of these power generation systems, 德赢ac米兰vwin (1) perform demand and supply adjustment within the building based on requests from a commercial electric utility supplier^{(note 1)}, (2) operate the 德赢ac米兰vwins according to energy and heat demand within the building itself, and (3) compensate for power output fluctuations in the PV 德赢ac米兰vwin of the regional utility company.

Project participants from the U.S. side will include this regional utility firm - Public Service Company of 德赢ac米兰vwin - as well as Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the University of 德赢ac米兰vwin. Their involvement will enable a collaborative smart grid demonstration encompassing cooperation between the utility and demand sides. In addition, Accenture and Itochu Corporation will respectively undertake Project data management and demonstration site management support.

The nine participating Japanese companies signed a project implementation agreement with NEDO in August 2010. By September 2011, they had completed the design and manufacture of 德赢ac米兰vwin's various power sources, heat source equipment and control system. Between October 2011 and April 2012, they transported, installed and adjusted the equipment at the building site.