Takeshi ICHIMURA, CEO of Energy Pool Japan recently signed the first book on Demand Response (DR) in Japan called “Introduction to DR / VPP / aggregator”. Through 4 chapters, this book traces the history of key evolutions in the Japanese power system. It first focuses on Electricity history in Japan […]
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Towards microgrids: a local and optimized production and consumption for connected and islanded Grids
Awareness of environmental issues has been growing for about half a century but has picked up momentum in the past decade. This combined with economic factors and the fast development of distributed renewable resources, enhanced an increasing interest in the future evolution of the energy sector […]
Demand Response as a powerful flexibility resource for value creation in regulated markets
Demand Response (DR) is provided by electricity consumers who accept to adjust temporarily their electricity consumption upon request against a financial compensation to contribute to ensure grid integrity in a cost-effective way.
In liberalized electricity markets, the participation of demand side resources to the wholesale and/or […]
Vehicle-To-Grid: what opportunities for owners and managers of electric charging systems?
In this Covid-19 period, most governments in the world, and particularly French one, have decided to deploy ambitious plans to support the struggling electric vehicle industry and relaunch demand. In this context, vehicle-to-grid solutions are seen to be more and more […]