Agile Energy X, Inc. Launches Demonstration of Effective Utilization of Renewable Energy
through "Solar-Power-Tracking Containerized Data Center
December 6, 2023
Agile Energy X, Inc.
Agile Energy X, Inc., a 100% subsidiary of TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., is a "Solutions
Integrator" that solves energy-related social issues by creating digital values andenvironmental values from electric power through the integration of advanced technologies
centered around distributed computing.
Agile Energy X has built a container-type data center in Showa-mura, Gunma Prefecture inJapan, that tracks and runs on renewable energy, and started operation in August 2023.
Through this project, Agile Energy X aims to establish a solution that contributes to avoiding
interconnection delays of renewable energy due to grid congestion and opportunity costcaused by curtailment.
Agile Energy X is committed to developing innovative solutions that would help makerenewable energy one of the main sources of power generation in Japan.
Realization of a distributed energy resource capable of tracking variable
renewable energy, contributing to mitigation of interconnection delays andcurtailment of renewable energy.
Agile Energy X focused on "Bitcoin Mining,” a type of distributed computing, as one of
the most effective distributed energy resources (DER) capable of flexibly creating
power demand, that can contribute to mitigating interconnection delays andcurtailment of renewable energy.
This is a solution based on reverse thinking—taking advantage of the characteristics of
bitcoin mining that consumes a lot of power executing cryptographic calculations inorder to create digital value—enabling maximum use of “wasted” renewable energy.
Agile Energy X built a containerized data center with an Adaptive Mining Control
system onsite of a new solar power station in Showa-mura, Gunma Prefecture, built byTEPCO Renewable Power, Inc. (TEPCO RP, a 100% subsidiary of Tokyo ElectricPower Company Holdings, Inc.)
The system monitors the amount of PV power generation, which changes frommoment to moment throughout the day, in real time, and remotely and automaticallycontrols the number of active bitcoin mining devices (load capacity) in accordance withthe amount of power generated, making it possible to use all of the PV power for inhouse consumption without reverse power flow into the grid.
The development and installation of this data center facility was made possible withthe technical cooperation of TRIPLE-1, Inc., a Japanese startup that specializes in thedevelopment of advanced semiconductors and distributed data centers.
By combining a containerized data center with bitcoin mining devices and renewableenergy power sources, the containerized data center will be able to maximize the useof its power generation assets by consuming its own renewable energy power even incases of interconnection delays due to long lead time for grid upgrade and curtailment
after interconnection to the grid is completed.

Containerized Data Center (Agile Energy X, TRIPLE-1)

Solar Power Station (TEPCO RP)
Development towards "distributed computing" to support the digital society.
Solar-Power-Tracking Containerized Data Centers will become the technology basefor the future digital society that enables the combination of renewable energy with
distributed computing technologies, such as bitcoin mining, AI/deep learning, andcomputer graphics rendering processes, to be used as flexible demand responseresources.
Agile Energy X will continue its innovative efforts as a Solutions Integrator with themission to solve social issues related to energy and contribute to the realization of an
ideal energy infrastructure for the future.