Japan set up the long-term R & D roadmap titled “PV2030” in 2004. This roadmap assumes the mass deployment of 100GW PV aggregation will supply 10% of national electricity up to year 2030. Under this condition, PV penetration will reach almost 100% in the majority of urban areas, which may allow less harmonization with the conventional power grid due to the frequent and huge reversal power flow from PVs. The authors have developed new concepts called “autonomy-enhanced PV cluster (AE-PVC)” to realize a less dependent PV aggregation on the existing power grids. This paper describes a configuration and functions of a battery storage station, which performs energy control in AE-PVC.
