German small-scale onsite waste gasification technology developer, ENTRADE, has opened an office in Fukushima’s Renewable Energy Center and agreed upon a close cooperation with Vice Governor Toshiyuki Hata and the prefecture Fukushima.
The company explained that in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami and the resulting reactor catastrophe of 2011, all nuclear power stations in Japan were shut down. In the following years, the feed-in-tariffs stimulated the photovoltaic market.
Since 2013, 30 Gigawatt photovoltaic electricity have been built up. However, due to the very limited transmission lines in some parts of Japan, photovoltaic electricity is said to be causing problems.
Because of this the Japanese government decided to decrease the feed-in-tariffs in 2017 to promote other renewable energies, such as biomass and wind power shall get higher market shares.
As part of that the move ENTRADE is to implement a concept which it developed with its partner, UK firm Green Growth Ltd, of deploying a number of its small power plants to provide local businesses with electricity, heat or vapour and simultaneously form a Local Smart Grid.
The company said that in November, the first of many E3 power plants will start operation to provide energy to the leading building company Fujita Construction Ltd.
According to ENTRADE the total investment should reach €50 million and the total electrical capacity will achieve up to 5MW.
To implement that plan ENTRADE will manufacture and plans the power plants, consisting of E3 units (25 kW electric, 60 kW thermal) and E4 units (50 kW electric, 120 kW thermal). Green Growth will undertake the continuous operation with the conversion of biomass such as wood waste to energy.
Virtual Energy Cloud
By connecting the ENTRADE power plants to a Virtual Energy Cloud, “Cloud-E”, the company said that further expansion of renewable energies, as well as continuous balance, is happening.
In particular the company said that the modularity of the facilities allows currently unused wind turbines and solar power systems to be used. Through this cloud a 5 MW a solar plant can reach full power at all times.
Depending on the changeable solar supply, ENTRADE explained that its facilities can be fully automatically cut-off or activated to provide base load electricity.
“We make photovoltaic and wind power, base load energy,” said Julien Uhlig, CEO of ENTRADE. “Our big advantage is the enormous flexibility: biomass and waste is eminently appropriate to build up the clean energy supply.”
Shun Klinger, head of the recently opened office in Fukushima added: “By these circumstances, ENTRADE’s market potential is enormous in Japan.”
In the video below Peik Stenlund explains more about the technology and its capabilities at the opening of the Kretz Innovation Campus in October 2016.
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