Itochu quietly assembled a gigantic home battery | Canary Media
TOKYO, Japan — Small-scale renewables and batteries could team up to replace large fossil-fueled plants — it just takes a whole lot of little devices to match what big, old
TOKYO, Japan — Small-scale renewables and batteries could team up to replace large fossil-fueled plants — it just takes a whole lot of little devices to match what big, old
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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.
Since 2017, Itochu has quietly built up a fleet across Japan of 36, 000 home batteries under its control, and that’s just the beginning. “ We want to expand to 100, 000 units,” said Maiko Mori, team leader at Itochu’s Energy Storage Business Section, when Canary Media met with her on a recent visit to Tokyo.