Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Construction Business

Yokohama City has installed storage batteries in public facilities such as elementary and junior high schools designated as evacuation shelter since FY2016, with the aim of stabilizing electricity and improving disaster prevention capabilities in anticipation of the spread of renewable energy.
This initiative is positioned as one of the implementations of the YSCP demonstration project.

A system that uses advanced energy management technology to control the storage batteries, power generation facilities, electric vehicles, etc. owned by buildings and homes are controlled remotely and integrated control of energy storage batteries, power generation facilities, and electric vehicles.
What is Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Demand Response (DR)? (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) (external site)

Storage batteries will be installed at disaster prevention bases and public facilities that serve as disaster prevention bases and evacuation sites in the event of a disaster. This is positioned as a "Yokohama VPP."
In normal times, the effects of VPP contributes to the society that uses electricity more effectively, and in the event of an emergency, it contributes to the improvement of disaster prevention in the region by using it as a "power for disaster prevention".

Demonstration Project (FY2016-FY29): 36 elementary and junior high schools (2 schools in each ward)
Actual business (FY2018): 11 elementary schools (Kohoku Ward)
Actual business (FY2019): 12 elementary schools (Konan Ward, Isogo Ward, Kanazawa Ward, Totsuka Ward, Sakae Ward) and Kohoku Ward Office
Actual business (FY2020): 12 elementary and junior high schools (Midori Ward, Aoba Ward, Tsuzuki Ward  )
Actual business (FY2021): 12 elementary schools (Tsurumi Ward, Kanagawa Ward, Nishi Ward, Naka Ward, Minami Ward, Hodogaya Ward, Asahi Ward, Izumi Ward, Seya Ward)

Public-private partnerships will consider the development of urban VPP projects that utilize resources from various city areas, such as continuing to expand to 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 advance by cooperation.

Yokohama City will serve as the secretariat for the purpose of spreading and expanding it to local governments nationwide by sharing knowledge and issues of advanced local governments working on VPP construction projects among participants and disseminating information on various business cases. doing.
◆Period
　From January 23, 2019 to March 31, 2021 [End]
◆Main agenda items
　(1)　Sharing issues and knowledge of advanced local governments
　(2)　Issues and solution methods of local governments
　(3)　Information dissemination and expansion through the local government VPP Promotion Liaison Conference