Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Construction Business

In order to stabilize electricity and improve disaster prevention capabilities in anticipation of the spread of renewable energy, Yokohama City has installed storage batteries at public facilities such as elementary and junior high schools designated by evacuation shelter since fiscal 2016, and is developing a virtual power plant construction business.
This initiative is positioned as one of the implementations of the YSCP demonstration project.

A mechanism for remote and integrated control of storage batteries, power generation equipment, electric vehicles, etc. owned by buildings and homes using advanced energy management technology, and functioning like a single power plant, thereby utilizing it to adjust the supply and demand of electricity.
What is Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Demandri Response (DR)? (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry HP) (external site)

In the event of a disaster, storage batteries will be installed at disaster prevention bases and public facilities such as evacuation sites, and in addition to operating VPP during normal times, it will be used as "disaster prevention power" in the event of an emergency accompanied by a power outage. This is positioned as the Yokohama VPP.
In normal times, the effects of VPP contribute to a society that uses electricity better, which the government aims to achieve, and in an emergency, it contributes to the improvement of disaster prevention in the region by using it as a "power source for disaster prevention."

Demonstration project (FY2016-FY2017): 36 elementary and junior high schools (2 schools in each ward)
Real business (FY2018): 11 elementary schools (Kohoku Ward)
Real business (FY2019): 12 elementary schools (Konan Ward, Isogo Ward, Kanazawa Ward, Totsuka Ward, Sakae Ward), Kohoku Ward Office
Real business (FY2020): 12 elementary and junior high schools (Midori Ward, Aoba Ward, Tsuzuki Ward  )
Real business (FY2021): 12 elementary schools (Tsurumi Ward, Kanagawa Ward, Nishi Ward, Naka Ward, Minami Ward, Hodogaya Ward, Asahi Ward, Izumi Ward and Seya Ward)

We will continue to study the development of urban VPP projects that utilize resources in various city areas, such as the development of elementary and junior high schools, other public facilities and private facilities, and the use of electric vehicles that are expected to spread in the future. We will proceed through public-private partnerships.

Yokohama City will be the secretariat for the purpose of sharing the knowledge and issues of advanced local governments working on the VPP construction project among participants and disseminating information on various business cases to spread and expand to local governments nationwide. doing.
◆Period
　From January 23, 2019 to March 31, 2021 [End]
◆Main agenda
　(1)　Sharing issues and knowledge of advanced local governments
　(2)　Issues and Solving Methods of Local Governments
　(3)　Information dissemination and spread through local government VPP promotion liaison meeting