Sumitomo Electric Delivers Its Energy Management System Using Storage Battery for On-site PPA Service in Thailand

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. delivered the energy management system "sEMSA^TM-F"^＊１ using a storage battery for a third-party owned on-site power purchase agreement (PPA) service^＊2 provided by the Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (Headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka; Director, Representative Executive Officer, and President: Nozomu Mori; hereinafter referred to as "KEPCO") and Kansai Energy Solutions (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "K-EST"), a subsidiary of KEPCO.

Sumitomo Electric's sEMSA^TM-F was delivered to the site of Kawasaki Motors Enterprise (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a group company of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Kawasaki Motors Enterprise (Thailand) signed a PPA service contract with KEPCO and K-EST and introduced 5 MW roof-mounted photovoltaic systems and a 550 kWh storage battery.

＜Features of sEMESA^TM-F＞
1. Integrated control of multiple power conditioning systems (PCSs)
In recent years, an increasing number of mega solar installations use multiple small-capacity PCSs with excellent cost performance in order to reduce initial costs. Since sEMSA^TM-F can monitor and control multiple solar cell PCSs and storage battery PCSs at the same time, integrated operation is possible with a single unit of sEMSA^TM-F.