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4 companies start smart grid demonstration project in Rokkasho

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Japan Wind Development Co (JWD), Toyota Motor Corp, Panasonic Electric Works Co and Hitachi Ltd have started a smart grid demonstration project in Rokkasho Village, Aomori Prefecture.

The project aims to verify technologies that allow for the efficient use of energy toward the achievement of a low-carbon society. The project will use only renewable energy sources, such as the world’s first wind power stations with dedicated large-capacity batteries and photovoltaic power-generation systems.

Building smart grids requires meeting the electricity supply conditions (power sources and transmission lines) and communications infrastructure of each specific country and region, as well as introducing such elements as renewable energy generation facilities, electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles, storage batteries, EcoCute (an electric water heating and supply system) and heat storage units.

Currently, possibilities in newelectricity distribution methods and vast advances in information and communications technology (ICT) are raising the prospect of a shift from today’s conventional supply-demand adjustment approach to one that optimizes both supply and demand.

JWD, Toyota, Panasonic Electric Works and Hitachi have built an isolated grid -- an electricity network independent from the main grid -- in Rokkasho Village, which has favorable conditions for wind power generation and has Japan’s largest wind power generation capacity. The companies will work jointly to develop and demonstrate technologies for optimizing supply and demand effectively.

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Might as well optimize air conditioners while leaving the windows open. Please get rid of the house kerosene heater. Actually large scale projects are not as efficient as local scaled because of line losses. Japan could easily use its geothermal locally and not keep relying on large scale projects. Thus ensuring resilience and market price competition.

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doing anything else while not doing the obvious things makes efficiencies in one area ridiculous when compared to things that cannot change due to intransigence

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Carbon dioxide is a life creating gas. You exhale it for Christ's sake. We are not talking about carbon monoxide. The more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more lush green life. Man-made global warming is a scam to create a whole new tax scheme(carbon trading) set up by phony debunked pseudo scientists like Al Gore. This cruel hoax was exposed in the Climate-gate scandal in which internal emails were leaked by a whistle blower that showed the data were being fudged. Also, it has come out that the increase in warming preceded the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and not vice versa as claimed in the crazed sex poodle's(Big Al) movie. Please focus on real environmental problems like the Frankenstein food being forced on the world.

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