GS Yuasa Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6674; “GS Yuasa”) announced that it, together with
13 other companies* including The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated (“Kansai Electric
Power”), was chosen for the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Construction Verification Project subsidized by
the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and
received the grant notification on July 21, 2016.
The verification project is aimed at realizing a new, non-conventional energy management for the
construction of energy infrastructure that contributes to efficient energy utilization by the society as a
whole, amid advancing electric power deregulation and electric power system reforms.
In particular, we will connect customer devices (resources) that dot the power system via IoT
(Internet of Things) and centrally control them to effectively utilize the supply-demand adjusting
capacity that can be produced from customer facilities, and ultimately construct a mechanism to make
them function as if it were one electric power plant (virtual power plant).
GS Yuasa will install large-size storage batteries at its company dormitory in Muko City, Kyoto
Prefecture, as its in-house facility, connect the interface of the storage batteries and control program to
the Internet and then to the storage battery server, and verify whether signal transmission and
reception can be carried out in accordance with the requirements.
Through this verification project, GS Yuasa aims to realize new energy management that links
storage batteries and IT technology, optimization of energy use employing such management and
further expanding introduction of storage batteries, which are installed with renewable energy power
sources, and contribute to the realization of low carbon society.
* The 14 companies of The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.,
Sansha Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., GS Yuasa Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries,
Ltd., Nihon Unisys, Ltd., NTT Smile Energy Inc., Enegate Co., Ltd., ELIIY Power Co., Ltd.,
Obayashi Corporation, Kansai Electrical Safety Inspection Association, Daihen Corporation,
Nature Japan Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi Corporation
■The image of the Virtual Power Plant Construction Verification Project
■Image of the virtual power plant system configuration
