ITOCHU Announces a New Grid-scale Energy
In addition to having experience selling around 50,000 home energy storage batteries in total, ITOCHU is expanding its product lineup
Tokyo Gas is also participating in the Japanese utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) market, signing a 20-year tolling offtake deal with Australian developer Eku Energy for a forthcoming 30MW/120MWh project.
Another Tokyo-headquartered utility, Tokyo Gas, also began a similar programme with residential batteries. The company markets and installs battery storage systems to households, and also has a new solutions service, branded Igniture, which controls the charging and discharging to participate in power supply-demand balancing.
Tokyo Gas opened its Battery Control Service programme to customer enrolment on 26 August, offering an upfront fee of ¥10,000 (US$70) for joining and ¥200 per month thereafter.
Smart Star has sold 55, 000 units in Japan, mostly going to Itochu's fleet. A virtual power plant, then, provides economic justification for the small-scale clean energy that Japan desperately needs, given how tricky it is to build large-scale clean energy there.
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