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TECHNOLOGY LEADERS

Japanese Experience in Energy Storage
for a Distribution Network with
High-Penetration Renewable Energy
By Satoshi Morozumi

HIS ARTICLE PROVIDES AN
overview of the Japanese
advances in battery storage
projects for high-penetration conditions of renewable energy resources.
Several domestic and international
projects promoted by the New Energy
and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) are introduced and evaluated.
NEDO was established in 1980 and
is the largest Japanese public
research and development management organization. The main role of
NEDO is to promote the development
of advanced industrial, environmental, new energy, and energy conservation technologies. After 2000, an
important objective of NEDO was to
provide solutions to problems regarding the high penetration of distributed and renewable resources connected to power grids. Therefore, the
development of energy management
systems (EMSs), energy storage applications, and forecasting methods are
demonstrated targets of NEDO's
objectives. NEDO promoted several
projects linked to the grid-connection
problem of renewable energy, as
shown in Figure 1.
After 2010, NEDO started several
international smart communityrelated projects including smart grid
technologies. The first project was a

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Grid Connection Projects
in 2000

collaboration between New Mexico
and Japan. The current projects are in
the United States, Europe, and Asia, as
shown in Figure 2.

FY 2005 and Before

The output of some renewable energy influenced by weather conditions,

FY 2007

FY 2006

FY 2008 and After

Demonstrative Project on
Grid-Interconnection of Clustered
Photovoltaic (PV) Power Generation Systems
(FY 2002-2007)
Wind Power Stabilization Technology
Development Project
(FY 2003-2007)

Demonstrative Project of Regional
Power Grids with Various New Energies
(FY 2003-2007)
Demonstrative Project on New
Power Network Systems
(FY 2004-2007)

Verification of Grid Stabilization with
Large-Scale PV Power Generation
Systems (FY 2006-2010)

Development of an Electric Energy
Storage System for Grid-Connection
with New Energy Resources
(FY 2006-2010)

Figure 1. NEDO's grid connection system projects in 2000. (FY: Fiscal Year)

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