23.5.2019 Cologne. The Toyota Motor Corporation is conducting research on the electric network, the next Generation: Together with the University of Tokyo and the energy Start-up TRENDS, the Japanese automotive company from the age of 17. June extensive testing in the Toyota Higashifuji Technical Center, and in the immediate and wider environment. Households, businesses and electrified vehicles connected to the electricity network, are in future to be able to your energy easy to make.
The supply of energy in Japan and the Rest of the world is currently going through a change: The diffusion of decentralized components such as solar panels, secondary batteries and electrified vehicles is decreasing gradually. Instead of a classic, great consolidated electric power network is a System in which individuals and companies about their own energy supply have created.
With the field test, Toyota is now investigating the benefits of so-called prosumers, who create their own decentralized System, electricity and on the electricity exchange, other consumers offer prices that correspond to each of the current supply and demand conditions. The goal is to assess the feasibility of such a two-sided, stand-alone power supply system that enables direct trading with other prosumers.
Concrete steps of the test include the establishment of a power exchange, which is for households and participating companies, and the creation of an artificial intelligence based power management system in every household and company. This System buys and sells electricity on the stock exchange on the basis of one’s own consumption, and the forecasts of how much solar power in the respective households and businesses is generated.
As the world’s first Test for the electricity trading between individuals is also Plug be included in addition to solar modules and secondary batteries-in-hybrid vehicles as distributed power supply systems.
Toyota is testing the power grid of the next Generation (photo: TOYOTA)
