In Graduate School of Environment and Energy to which our laboratory belongs, the field of environment and energy is targeted for issues that are becoming increasingly serious, such as disasters and environmental pollutions. Based on such social issues, our researches of environment and energy network cover both the bulk power system as the core power grid and the cluster type electric power system consists of individuals grids as micro grids. In our researches, the optimal networking technologies are required to connect between the distributed energy resources including renewable energies expected to reduce environmental impacts and the energy consumption activities. In particular, a power system for sustainable societies requires a flexible distributed system that is resilient to disasters while maintaining a strong core system. As research to address such issues, we apply the essential technologies such as prediction technologies, optimization technologies including uncertainty, strategic planning technologies including investment strategies, system control and simulation technologies, and then, on the premise of energy demand trends and social systems, we can respond to application fields of long and very short-term equipment planning, protective operation control at that moment.

Furthermore, at the present time, through technical exchange with researchers in Southeast Asian countries on “Research of Expandable Cluster-based Energy Infrastructure in e-Asia Countries” project, our laboratory is conducting to develop the strategic planning prototyping-tool, named ÅgGGODÅh, that provides optimal network design using geospatial information technologies based on the analysis of the potential of decentralized energy resources including renewable energies.

The Power Energy Professionals Program applies strong partnerships with other university faculty members in dedicated power system areas that have been established in academic activities and government committees, and in addition, on realistic policies and project issues in industry-government collaboration. In other words, valuable research utilizing human networks is constructed as a new academic field “energy social system optimization” to solve the problem of the environment/energy network. As a research environment for that, for example, although non-electrification countermeasure technologies are not a problem in the current domestic market, we will further develop it and discuss about the construction of a new infrastructure on energy taking into consideration possible disasters in and outside of Japan. With this kind of research process as a trigger, you can acquire possibilities of future research and potential for further challenges as well as certification of ÅgPower Energy ProfessionalÅh.