NEDO and Daikin Industries Ltd. have completed an Automated Demand Response (ADR) demonstration system for air conditioning in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. The system, under development since November 2016, will start operation from July 2018.
The demonstration project is being conducted in collaboration with a Portuguese electric power retailer and a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) operator, who aggregates multiple small-to-medium power generation facilities of renewable energy. For this project, multi-split air conditioning systems for office buildings were equipped with cold storage units and a demand response function and installed in four public facilities in Lisbon, including City Hall. The upper limit of electricity consumption for the air conditioning systems is automatically controlled in response to the needs of the grid in balancing electric power supply and demand. The project aims to establish business models for electric power retailers to maximize renewable energy usage during peak demand hours throughout the summer season using ADR technology. Consequently, the effectiveness of the system to ensure a stable supply of renewable energy will be evaluated. Based on the project results, Daikin hopes to utilize ADR technology in conjunction with air conditioning systems in Portugal and other EU countries.
NEDO and the National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG) of Portugal signed an MoU to launch a project to demonstrate Automated Demand Response (ADR)*1 technology that could automatically adjust demand upwards or downwards in response to the power demand-supply balance. At the same time, NEDO concluded an Implementation Agreement (IA) with the city of Lisbon, designating facilities in Lisbon.
