Yoshimichi Okuno

Power and Heat Interchange System using Fuel Cells in Collective Housing

A power and heat interchange system with fuel cells in collective housings is proposed. A solution method for determining optimal FC operation plan is proposed. From numerical simulations it is confirmed that fuel cells are effectively used by interchanging power and heat in a collective housing.

Application of the IEC 61850 to communication in distribution automation and building energy management systems - Evaluation of the applicability of standard Logical Nodes and Data Objects

To realize smart grid technologies such as load control, load leveling and demand response and solve problems caused by connecting many DERs to a distribution network, a distribution automation system (DAS) and energy management system (EMS) are respectively essential components. The communication of these systems has generally been handled by proprietary or vendor-specific protocols to date. Conversely, in intra- and inter-substation communication, the IEC 61850 has started to gain acceptance in supervisory control communication, due to its interoperability supporting multi-vendor environments. If the IEC 61850 can be applied to communications in DAS and EMS, this is expected to reduce the maintenance and equipment costs of each system. To do so, we must first evaluate the applicability of the IEC 61850 from the perspective of Logical Nodes (LN) and Data Objects (DO), which are data models defined in IEC 61850. This paper focuses on the DAS and building EMS (BEMS) and provides the evolution. We choose BEMSs because we expect many EMSs to be installed in homes or buildings in the near future and anticipate that building energy management functions will include home energy management functions. This evaluation result shows that most data items appearing on such communications can be represented as standard LNs and DOs but several data items cannot be easily represented as the same.

XMPP-based energy management system architecture for communications systems

Generators and power storages for communication facilities for emergency use could get involved in realizing smart grids. Standard protocols of OpenADR 2.0b and IEC 61850 are used for communication to ensure the interoperability of smart grid. XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) has promise to be applied to the transport layer of both of the standard protocols. In this paper, the authors examine the construction of a common communication platform based on XMPP.

Application of IEC 61850 to the communication of a large-scale photovoltaic power generation operation - Web service and conformance test -

We developed a SCADA server as a prototype to evaluate the applicability of IEC 61850 for the operation of large-scale photovoltaic (PV) generation systems. IEC 61850 and Web-service technology (IEC 61400-25-4) are applied to the data model and the server communication protocol. We also developed a test client for the conformance test, which was then executed. The result showed that the server conformed to IEC 61850 on the data model and protocol. Therefore, the applicability of IEC 61850 to the operation of a large-scale photovoltaic (PV) generation system is confirmed.