Greentech Lead Japan: Kyocera Corporation, in association
with an international collaboration, announced the launch of a
state-of-the-art, international smart-grid demonstration project in Los Alamos,
New Mexico (U.S.A.).
For this project, Kyocera associated with New Energy and
Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan, the New Mexico
state government, the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities, the Los Alamos
National Laboratory and a number of other companies, research institutes and
local governments.
The project demonstrates how a smart house can play an
important role from the demand side in a smart grid, where renewable energy
such as solar power will be significantly implemented in the future. It aims
for the wider implementation of renewable energy and the promotion of energy
conservation through the use of smart grid-related technologies.
The project is located at three sites in Los Alamos and
Albuquerque, of which Kyocera is participating in two: the Smart-Grid
Demonstration and the Smart House Demonstration in Los Alamos. Furthermore,
Kyocera will be commissioned to lead the Evaluation of Distributed Energy
Resource (Photovoltaics, etc.) within the Collective Research portion of the overall
project.
The Smart-Grid Demonstration in Los Alamos consists of a
power supply micro-grid which uses power distribution lines from a large-scale
solar power plant to utilize related technologies and performance, and to
minimize the effects of power output fluctuations. Kyocera supplied a 910kW
multicrystalline silicon solar module array.
For the Smart House Demonstration in Los Alamos, Kyocera
constructed a hybrid energy management system which uses a 3.4kW residential
solar power generating system, 24kWh lithium-ion storage battery and an
energy-efficient heat storage unit. Â
“In this project, we will demonstrate how a smart
house can play an important role from the demand side in a smart grid, where
renewable energy such as solar power will be significantly implemented in the
future,” said Kyocera Corporation vice president and general manager of
the company’s Solar Energy Group, Tatsumi Maeda. “This smart house project
was established to demonstrate the next generation of energy management by
using the newest technologies.”
KYOCERA launches new company to operate 70MW solar power plant
in Japan
Recently Kyocera and its six partners completed the
capital investment procedures to establish a new company to operate a 70 MW
solar power plant in southern Japan. The new company, Kagoshima Mega Solar
Power Corporation, will develop and operate the solar power plant in Kagoshima
City (Kagoshima Prefecture). Â Â
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