JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd announced its intention to co-operate with ENEOS Corporation, Japan's largest oil refiner, on the provision of solar modules for a Virtual Power Plant project.
For this project, JinkoSolar's high-efficiency monocrystalline products will be deployed and installed on the roof of fuel service stations connected to a cloud-based distributed power plant, and will become the first VPP project of JinkoSolar in Japan. A VPP integrates a pool of independent power sources into a power network and their aggregated assets are used to tailor the supply and demand of electricity. On this project, the VPP consists of JinkoSolar's high-efficiency solar modules installed on the rooftops of several gas stations that are linked in clusters to the charge/discharge cycle of the storage system. This allows more efficient battery control optimization and effectively re-utilizes the solar power generation on demand.
A world-renowned solar brand, JinkoSolar is also the first foreign-owned solar module manufacturer to achieve annual shipments of over 1 GW in Japan.
