中國儲能網(wǎng)訊：日前據(jù)報道，日本貿(mào)易商伊藤忠商事株式會社向英國的能源存儲和相關服務提供商Moixa公司投資500萬英鎊（704萬美元），這個舉措使伊藤忠公司可以將Moixa公司的“GridShare”聚合平臺添加到自己的電池儲能解決方案套件中。
在獲得公用事業(yè)TEPCO公司的50萬英鎊投資之后不到一年，這筆最新的資金將有助于Moixa公司的國際市場的擴張，尤其是在日本市場，可以將GridShare平臺推向當?shù)氐碾姵厥袌觥?
與此同時，伊藤忠商事將推廣這一平臺，利用人工智能根據(jù)行為模式、天氣狀況和市場價格優(yōu)化電池性能，并將其添加到自己的Smart Star電池系統(tǒng)中。
伊藤忠商事投資500萬英鎊（704萬美元）到英國的能源存儲和相關服務提供商Moixa公司，并將采用Moixa公司的電池存儲解決方案的“GridShare”聚合平臺
伊藤忠商事自2013年進入住宅儲能市場以來，預計將在2018年3月底之前在日本銷售超過6000臺9.8kWh Smart Star機組（其總量相當于55MWh），伊藤忠商事將在其產(chǎn)品上安裝GridShare作為標準產(chǎn)品。Moixa公司將于2018年夏天使用該平臺來聚合多個分布式電池的容量，以提供電網(wǎng)服務，包括降低在英國本地電網(wǎng)的高峰需求。Moixa公司每年將向系統(tǒng)主機或業(yè)主支付費用，允許供應商使用電池中的“剩余容量”來提供這些服務并獲得收入。
伊藤忠商事工業(yè)化學部門總經(jīng)理Koji Hasegawa表示：“Moixa公司在電池管理方面處于領先地位，我們很自豪能夠投資并開展合作，進入日本迅速發(fā)展的儲能市場。Moixa公司的GridShare將幫助我們的客戶獲得家用儲能電池更多的價值，并將提供解決方案，幫助我們加快日本的低碳轉型?！?
Moixa公司最近從英國政府獲得了25萬英鎊的資金，以擴大GridShare的推廣和應用。現(xiàn)在將尋求擴大與日本公用事業(yè)和電動汽車制造商的合作，并為其市場場化的電網(wǎng)提供服務。
在日本，太陽能上網(wǎng)電價計劃的十年期將于2019年到期。預計這將導致利用太陽能發(fā)電和儲能系統(tǒng)產(chǎn)生的電力的自用電量增加。從2020年起，所有新建的日本住宅將被要求達到凈零或零能源標準，這可能會促進儲能電池的更多的應用。而在日本，大多數(shù)人仍然是購買土地建立自己的家園，而不是購買他人的現(xiàn)有住宅，因此太陽能發(fā)電和儲能系統(tǒng)的應用將會更加廣泛。
Moixa公司首席執(zhí)行官Simon Daniel表示：“伊藤忠商事是全球電池市場的主要參與者，這一合作伙伴關系為我們擴大在日本市場的業(yè)務提供了一個真正的機會，并為許多全球電池公司提供GridShare技術。”據(jù)悉，Moixa公司還計劃今年在美國和歐洲進行試驗。
雖然日本擁有幾家大型鋰電池制造商（其中包括松下和索尼），但日本政府和主要公用事業(yè)商（目前也負責監(jiān)管地區(qū)電網(wǎng)）近幾個月來一直在尋求國外的能源存儲供應商、創(chuàng)新的商業(yè)模式和技術。日本經(jīng)濟產(chǎn)業(yè)省（METI）和三井公司目前正在運行一個項目，以建立一個“虛擬發(fā)電廠”的用戶側聚合儲能系統(tǒng)，將會采用東京電力、伊藤忠商事投資的Moixa公司，以及美國供應商Stem公司的技術。（中國儲能網(wǎng)獨家編譯，轉載請注明來源）
Japan’s Itochu will integrate UK-developed aggregation platform into own batteries
Published: 29 Jan 2018, 15:50
By:
David Pratt
Image: Moixa.
Japanese trading house Itochu has invested ￡5 million (US$7.04 million) into UK-based energy storage and related services provider Moixa, which will enable Itochu to add Moixa’s ‘GridShare’ aggregation platform to its own suite of battery storage solutions.
Less than a year after securing ￡500,000 of investment from major utility TEPCO, the latest funding will aid Moixa’s international expansion, not least in Japan where it will be able to launch GridShare to the battery market.
Meanwhile Itochu will promote the platform, which uses artificial intelligence to optimise the performance of their battery based on their patterns of behaviour, the weather conditions and market prices, as well as adding it to its own Smart Star battery systems.
Since entering the residential energy storage market in 2013, over 6,000 9.8kWh Smart Star units – equivalent to around equivalent to 55MWh - are expected to be sold in Japan by the end of March 2018. Itochu will then install GridShare as standard on its products by the summer of 2018. In the UK, Moixa is using the platform to aggregate the capacity of multiple distributed batteries to be able to provide grid services, including lowering peak demand on local networks. System hosts or owners are paid a fee annually by Moixa for allowing the provider to use ‘spare capacity’ in their batteries to provide these services and earn revenues.
Koji Hasegawa, general manager of the industrial chemicals department at Itochu, said: “Moixa has pioneered battery management, and we are proud to be investing and working together to target the rapidly growing energy storage market in Japan.
“Moixa’s GridShare will help our customers get more value for their home batteries and will offer solutions to help our partners manage Japan’s low-carbon transition.”
The British battery firm, which recently secured ￡250,000 from the UK government to expand GridShare to include aggregation of third party units for the first time, will now seek to expand its partnerships with Japanese utilities and electric vehicle manufacturers, and to market services to electricity networks.
In Japan, the 10-year period for the solar feed-in-tariff scheme will begin to expire in 2019. This is expected to lead to an increase in self-consumption of power that is generated using solar systems and energy storage systems, as one Japanese company, Solar Frontier, told Energy-Storage.News in 2016. From 2020, all new Japanese homes are also expected to be required to meet net zero or zero energy standards, something which could have a strong impact on uptake of batteries at household level in a country where the majority of people still buy a plot of land on which to build their own home, as opposed to moving into recently-vacated exsiting residences.
Simon Daniel, chief executive of Moixa, said: “Itochu is a major player in the global battery market and this partnership provides a real opportunity for us to expand our business in Japan and provide GridShare technology to many global battery companies.”
The company is also planning trials in the US and Europe this year.
While Japan has several large manufacturers of lithium batteries headquartered in the country, including Panasonic and Sony, Japan’s government and its major utilities, which currently also oversee the regional electrical grid network, have been looking abroad in recent months for energy storage providers with new or innovative business models and technologies. In addition to the TEPCO and latterly Itochu investments into Moixa, Japan’s government Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Mitsui are currently running a project to create a ‘virtual power plant’ of aggregated behind-the-meter energy storage systems using technology from US provider Stem Inc.
