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Japan - U.S. Collaborative Smart Grid Demonstration Project in Maui Island

Japan - U.S. Collaborative Smart Grid

1. Introduction During the period between 2011 and 2016, there had been a smart community project called JUMPSmartMaui (JSM) held in the island of Maui, Hawaii, U.S. With the objective of effective utilization of renewable energy that had been penetrating on a larger scale and widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs), a smart community was constructed by Hawaiian and Japanese stakeholders, headed by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan.

Smart community is a social system that integrates advanced environmental and energy technologies and provides citizens belonging to the community with sustainable, safe and secure society. In this context, it is important to have a perspective of what value had been provided to citizens by the smart community. Based on this viewpoint, this report summarizes suggestions for future smart community development derived from the activities and results of JUMPSmartMaui, especially from the engagement of citizens (i.e. programs.i-ion)setssetssetssettery Acid):setsStation Management tribution levelbatteriesgrid (SVC)

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1. Introduction

During the period between 2011 and 2016, there had been a smart

community project called JUMPSmartMaui (JSM) held in the island of

Maui, Hawaii, U.S. With the objective of effective utilization of

renewable energy that had been penetrating on a larger scale and

widespread deployment of electric vehicles (EVs), a smart community

was constructed by Hawaiian and Japanese stakeholders, headed by the

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization

(NEDO) of Japan.

Smart community is a social system that integrates advanced

environmental and energy technologies and provides citizens belonging

to the community with sustainable, safe and secure society. In this

context, it is important to have a perspective of what value had been

provided to citizens by the smart community. Based on this viewpoint,

this report summarizes suggestions for future smart community

development derived from the activities and results of

JUMPSmartMaui, especially from the engagement of citizens (i.e.

volunteers participated in JUMPSmartMaui) on EV-related programs.

2. Overview of JUMPSmartMaui project

2.1 Energy situation in Hawaii

The island of Maui, which provided the stage for

JUMPSmartMaui, is the second largest island in Hawaii with an area of

approximately 1,884 km2

, a population of approximately 145,000 and

tourism as its major industry. The island’s electricity is supplied by Maui

Electric Company Inc. (MECO) which has the peak demand of about

205 MW.

The islands of Hawaii including Maui have a conspicuous feature

in terms of energy, which is extremely high energy cost. Figure 2 shows

retail electricity prices by state. It is indicated that the price in Hawaii is

significantly high compared with other states in the mainland. This is

due to the situation that Hawaii largely depends on imported fossil fuel

(especially oil) because of the geographical factor of being consisted of

remote islands.

Under such energy scene and with the rise in environmental

awareness, the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) was launched in

the State of Hawaii in 2008 and the Renewable Portfolio Standard

(RPS) was formalized in 2009. The RPS target was set to 15% by 2015,

25% by 2020 and 40% by 2030. Later, the bill, House Bill 623 (HB

623) set more ambitious goal of 30% RPS by 2020, 70% by 2040 and

100% by 2045.

The State Hawaii has been accelerating introduction of renewable

energy. At the same time, it is placing importance on the promotion of

EV (electric vehicle) as a solution to move away from the dependence

on fossil fuels, particularly oil, and established EV promoting acts

including the following:






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