Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review Vol. 55 No. 4 (December 2018)
1Launch of Power & Energy Solution Business- ENERGY CLOUDTM Service -GYO TANAKA*1TOSHIHIDE NOGUCHI*2

TADASHI SUZUKI*2

TOMOYUKI ENOMOTOI*3

HIDEO OKADA*4

MASAYUKI MORIHARA*5While the market conditions related to energy and the environment have been changing
drastically, such as low-carbon energy use and the widespread use of renewable energy,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has begun offering the ENERGY CLOUDTM Service, asolution that will help increase the enterprise value of our clients through optimized energy use.
This service is realized by applying MHI’s analytical prediction technology utilizing AI & IoT.
This report will explain the outline of the ENERGY CLOUDTM Service and introduce someactual solutions to which this service has been applied as described in the following technicalreports.

|1. Introduction
From the perspective of global economic growth, as presented in Figure 1, it is expected thatthe capacity of power generation facilities and the amount of electricity generated will continue toincrease worldwide(1). At the same time, there is also a social need for low-carbon energy that has
been rapidly growing due to climate change issues. It is believed that the plant capacity of
renewable energy such as solar PV power and wind power and related power generation output willcontinue to increase.
However, renewable energy has characteristics that are heavily susceptible to weather
conditions and location. In order to expand its use, there are still some issues to overcome,including dealing with the imbalance between supply and demand in electricity and the distancebetween suitable locations for generation and consuming areas.
Although these are mainly issues for power suppliers to deal with, in order to achievesustainable economic growth, even at the consumers’ end, it is necessary to effectively use various
energy sources including ever-growing renewable energy with its fluctuating characteristics.
Japan has set up the “S + 3E” basic principles as part of the government’s energy policy,
which satisfy Safety-orientated, Energy security, Economic efficiency and Environmentalcompatibility.
While the needs for dealing with future energy/environmental issues are increasing at both of
the suppliers’ and consumers’ ends, the role MHI is expected to play in the future will become evenmore important, not only as a manufacturer with a wide range of products and services, but also as
a provider of advanced energy utilization technologies.

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Power & Energy Solution Business Planning Department, Power & Energy Solution Business Division, Power Systems*2 Program Execution Manager, Power & Energy Solution Business Planning Department, Power & Energy Solution Business Division,Power Systems*3Senior Manager, Power & Energy Solution Business Planning Department, Power & Energy Solution Business Division, Power*4Manager, Power & Energy Solution Business Planning Department, Power & Energy Solution Business Division, Power Systems*5Manager, Power & Energy Solution Business Department, Power & Energy Solution Business Division, Power Systems

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Expected power generation capacity/energy (Source: IEA WEO 2017)|2. MHI’s approach
MHI has manufactured various power generation facilities and provided them to our clientsboth in Japan and overseas, in response to the diverse needs and changes in society. Furthermore,
we have accumulated a wide range of technologies related to power generation facilities throughoperation and maintenance services after delivery.
On the other hand, as explained in Figure 2, MHI is a large-scale energy consumer as well,with multiple offices and plants both at home and abroad that use a large amount of energy.
Therefore, as a manufacturing company, we also accumulate expertise on the operational
optimization of production facilities, as well as technologies and knowledge on energy creation,energy storage and energy saving at the same time. This is the most important point in terms of
how a consumer optimizes energy usage.
In this regard, we focused not only on power producers, but also on large-scale energy
consumers, while working on the verification of various energy solutions in multiple offices andplants in Japan. As a result, we saw the bright prospect that MHI's technologies and expertise on
power generation, energy use and facility operation would lead to the possibility of offering newvalues on top of solving energy-related problems for consumers by applying our unique analyticalprediction technology utilizing AI & IoT.
Against this background, MHI started offering the ENERGY CLOUDTM Service, an energy
solution service for energy consumers, in April 2017.

Figure 2

MHI’s position in the energy sector|3. MHI’s energy solutions
The recent development of digitalization has enabled us to not only collect various data suchas facility operation, facilitated by IoT technology, but also to quickly analyze the obtained
big-data by using AI. Subsequently, in addition to the conventional engineering approach, thestatistical approach has become one of the leading data analysis methods. Against this technicalbackground, MHI has been working vigorously on technology development for providing solutions
to energy consumers.

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Through the ENERGY CLOUD
Service, we are now able to provide support foroptimizing facility operation and business administration via guidance achieved by “facilitymonitoring (visualization technology)” utilizing our IoT technology, as well as “future forecast(analytical prediction technology)” utilizing AI. Accordingly, as one example, we have becomeable to predict energy demand with greater than 90% accuracy, which allows us to better
understand a facility’s operational status and provide new services to energy consumers such assupport for improved energy procurement and production efficiency.
As depicted in Figure 3, by combining the ENERGY CLOUDTM Service with
MHPS-TOMONITM*, which is already on the market, MHI Group is now able to offer a one-stop
solution service for the energy supply chain, covering the entire process from power suppliers toconsumers under the slogan of “POWER & ENERGY SOLUTION PROVIDER.”* MHPS-TOMONITM is a solution service that MHI Group company Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems,
Ltd. (MHPS) provides to power producers(2). MHPS offers a range of services for energy businesses,
including support for operational improvement utilizing IT technologies based on various data obtained
in demonstration facilities for gas turbine-combined cycle power plants.

Figure 3

Energy solutions offered by MHI|4. Development of power and energy solution businessIn the ENERGY CLOUDTM Service, in order to respond quickly to the diverse values andchoices which consumers demand from energy, as indicated in Figure 4, we support improved
energy procurement and production efficiency through future forecasting based on “data analysisutilizing AI” while grasping the customers’ actual energy utilization through “visualizationachieved with the use of IoT.” The key to the success of this service is the ability to come up withgreat solutions, and, if necessary, IT systems or information platforms are provided as measures torealize the solutions. With this in mind, the service features “Customer contents first” as a basic
philosophy where we address the issues and needs specific to individual customers.
We aim to develop the ENERGY CLOUDTM Service into a comprehensive energy solution
service by extending its application process, under the basic concept, to cover new fields such assupport for the Operation & Maintenance (O&M) of facilities, energy supply, and equipment
proposals for the improvement and the renewal.

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Application process for ENERGY CLOUDTM Service|5. Conclusion
The ENERGY CLOUDTM Service was created based on MHI’s comprehensive strength withits unique visualization technology and analytical prediction technology. The new solution
technology was established through the integration of our technological capabilities in the powergeneration facilities business and our wide range of plant operation expertise including knowledge
on energy utilization accumulated through more than 500 products and projects across the entire
group.
This service has demonstrated both internally and externally that it contributes to theoptimum utilization of energy and production facilities as can be seen in Figure 5, the details of
which are described in the other reports in this edition of the technical review.

Figure 5 Solutions described in this report(The numbers with white characters correspond to the reports in our latest technicalreview.)

We will strive to develop various different businesses in collaboration with renewableenergy, which will be widely introduced and utilized in the future, by offering the new technologies
and services described above. As shown in Figure 6, we will continue to work on the establishmentof “Energy infrastructure that contributes to maintaining the global environment” to achieve
reduced environmental impact and secure economic efficiency, while solving various issues
relating to the increased use of renewable energy.

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5Figure 6
Ultimate energy infrastructure contributing to maintaining the globalenvironment
ENERGY CLOUDTM and all related marks and logos are registered trademarks of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
Ltd. in Japan and other countries.
MHPS-TOMONITM is a registered trademark of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. in Japan.
Netmation eFinderTM and all related marks and logos are registered trademarks of Mitsubishi Hitachi PowerSystems, Ltd. in Japan.

References(1)(2)

International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2017
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems "MHPS-TOMONI" Unlocks the Advantages of Digital Power Plants
by Leveraging Customer Collaboration
https://www.mhps.com/news/20170309.html