Status of Microgrids

in Japan
The 4 Korea Smart Grid Week
Oct.17,2o13
Reiichiro Fujimori
1
Contents
1. Hachinohe Project : The first stage of microgrid in Japan
2. Renewable Energy and Microgrids
 Demonstration project in Miyako Island
3. Great Earthquake and Microgrid for reliability
 Needs for the islanding operation under the emergency condition
 Islanding system of Tokyo metropolitan area
4. From microgrid to “Smart Community”
 Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP)
 F-Grid Project (Tohoku)
 Remote Island Smart Community
 Commercialization of Microgrid: Roppongi Energy Service
 Relaxation of Regulations for Microgrids
5. Challenges for the future
2
Hachinohe: The first stage of
Microgrids in Japan (2003-2007)

Private Line
3
Facilities in Hachinohe Project
 Demand: Seven building facilities, sewage plant
 Electricity:
maximum 610kW at Hachinohe City hall, four
schools and office building.
 Heat: 10GCal/day at Sewage plant
 Energy supply:
 Electricity:
510kW(170x3) biogas engines, 130kW PVs,
20kW WTs,100kW lead-acid battery
 Heat: 1.0t/h wood boiler and 4t/h gas boiler
 Energy management
 5.4km Private line (electricity & communication)
 Interconnected with utility grid at a single point.
 Control error target: Within 3% every 6 minutes moving
average 4
Time Schedule of Hachinohe Project

5
Results of Hachinohe Project
Sudden change in demand in islanding operation

6
Miyako Island Project for Large Scale
Renewable Integration

Peak Demand About 50MW Photo Voltaic 4MW

Diesel Engine 74MW NAS Battery 4MW
Wind 4.2MW (Existing) LIB 100kW
7
Frequency Control with Battery Storage
and Fossil Plants in Miyako Microgrid
Wind
Miyako P/S Miyako #2 Miyako GT
Wind (Diesel) (Diesel) P/S

CCU

Installed Apparatus for the Project

S/S

Layer3

Layer 2

Customer
Layer 1 s (Block
A) Customer Customer Customer
s (Block s (Block s (Block
B) C) D)

8
Result of Frequency Control

ＮＡＳ電池
Battery 太陽光発電
PV 風力発電
Wind 周波数
Frequency

周波数【Hz】 [Hz]
3000 60.2
風力発電【kW】

Stabilized with Battery Control

NAS電池制御により周波数安定化

Frequency
60
[kW]

2000 59.8
Power Output

59.6
太陽光発電,

1000 59.4

59.2

0 59
Active
NAS電池,

NAS電池制御OFF
Without Battery Control NAS電池制御ON
With Battery Control 58.8
10:00 10:05 10:10 10:15
-1000 58.6

9
Microgrid for High Reliability (Tokyo Metropolitan Area)

1515MW

５
６
４

６ ７
８ ７
５
９
３ ４ 78MW
10
２ ３

２ 11
１

１
410MW

1000MW× 2 350MW 350MW

10
× 1 × 2
Microgrid for High Reliability (Tokyo Metropolitan Area)

Outage
area

The Most
Important Area
Intentional
1000MW× 2 350MW 350MW Islanding Operation
11
× 1 × 2
Microgrid for High Reliability (Tokyo Metropolitan Area)

1000MW× 2 350MW 350MW

12
× 1 × 2
Emergency Islanding Operation
Hz Main System
Islands
50.5
51.2Hz
50.4

50.3

50.2

50.1

50.0

49.9

49.8
Intentional Islanding Operation
49.7
13 minutes
49.6
47.63Hz
49.5
13:40 13:42 13:44 13:46 13:48 13:50 13:52 13:54 13:56
Time
13
Sendai Microgrid: Reliability and
Microgrid

14
Great East Japan Earthquake and
Sendai Microgrid
Sendai Microgrid Project by NEDO During Grid Outage After the Earthquake

15
From Microgrid to Smart Community

16
 Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP)
Apartment building HEMS Condominium HEMS
Utility-side Batteries Battery SCADA
（TOSHIBA, HITACHI,MEIDENSHA/NEC) （TOSHIBA）
House HEMS
House HEMS

Customer-side Batteries
(SHARP, SONY Energy Devise)
HEMS
Battery SCADA Information network
R&D of Practical and Integrated Energy
Storage Systems for Smart Community Charge Station
CEMS
Community Energy GDC
Integration BEMS Management System

Shopping center BEMS EV

Smart BEMS
Charge and Discharge EV
Office building BEMS
Smart BEMS 17
BEMS
 Demand Response in YSCP
＜ DR for Residential Customers in YSCP＞
DR Signal
Measured Data
HEMS
Server In-Home
kW
Displays

Time
Peak Time Smart Meter

CPP（Critical Peak Pricing） PTR（Peak Time Rebate）

Yen／kWh kW

Customers are Provided a Rebate

for Reductions in Consumption.

Time Time
Peak Time Peak Time
18
 Battery Energy Storage in YSCP
Functions of Battery SCADA Hydro Power Central Loading Thermal Power
Load Frequency Control Dispatch Center
Daily Demand & Supply Balance
Spinning Reserve
Transmission System
Demonstration Center

Battery SCADA
Substation
Virtual Large ICD ICD
System
System
Battery

Connecting to
Batteries of
SHARP & SONY

Utility-side Batteries
Customer-side Batteries

Power System
Distribution System
Information Network 19
SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, ICD: Information Collection & Distribution
 Battery SCADA
YSCP Demonstration Center Lithium ion Batteries of
HITACHI, MEIDENSHA/NEC, TOSHIBA from the right

Control room

Battery Containers

250kW/51kWh
HITACHI or
100kW/100kWh

MEIDENSHA 250kW/
/NEC 250kWh

300kW/
TOSHIBA
100kWh20
F-Grid Project in Tohoku Area

21
Islanding Operation in F-Grid
During Utility Grid Outage

22
Remote Island Smart Community
Demand 付加価値向上
Active
Side Enrollmen EMS・DR
t of EV活用等

Peak Shave DR and Renewable

Control

Diesel Photovoltaic
（Mega-solar＋Rooftop）

Utility
Side Small Wind

Diesel

Reduction of
Fossil Fuel 23
 Remote Island Smart Community
Reduction of
Minimization of Storage Renewable Control
Diesel Engine
蓄電池 Mega Solar
EV Charging Control
PV
EV/PHV

Power Station
PCS PCS
Small Wind
Energy Management Smart Meter
HEMS/
DR signal、Control and Smart Interface
Monitoring
Distribution Grid
Island EMS
(DR・PCS Control）
Demand Side
Utility Office Management
HVAC Lighting Heat Pump Hot
Optimizing Control of Equipment Water Server
DR and Equipment EMS EMS
Heat Pump
EMS

Hotels Fishing Port Cold Storage Warehouse

24
DR of Local Industry Infrastructure
Commercialized Microgrid:
Roppongi Energy Service Company

25
Relaxation of Regulation of the
Microgrid “Special Utility”
By the relaxation of the regulation, the special
utility is allowed to import power from out of
the microgrid.

Utility T&D grid Import from outside Generation

Point of
of the microgrid
20～50
Interconnection

Generation
100～50
(Demand)
Special Utility
Responsible for balancing and
voltage regulation in the
microgrid

26
Challenges for the future
 Japanese Microgrids that began with Hachinohe
Project have achieved remarkable development
in varied way.
 InMiyako island microgrid, large scale integration of
renewable energy with fossil plants and storage has
been mocked up succesfully.
 Microgrids for high reliability during utility grid outage
have been tested.
 Some microgrids have been already commercialized.
Recently, the concept has been extended to “Smart
Community”.
 New needs exceeding renewable integration,
energy efficiency and reliability
27
Thank you for Listening

28