Sho Kuroda

• Ph.D. in Policy and Planning Sciences
• Lecturer at Waseda University

Local electricity generation and sharing has been given considerable attention recently for its disaster resilience and other reasons. However, the process of designing local sharing communities (or local grids) is still unclear. Thus, this study empirically compares algorithms for electricity sharing community clustering in terms of self-sufficien...

This paper attempts to assess the value of urban views in a bay city (Yokohama), Japan. Firstly, three types of views, open view (goodness of visibility), green view (visibility of open space), and ocean view (visibility of ocean), were quantified employing the viewshed analysis implemented on the GIS with airborne LiDAR data and 0.5 m × 0.5 m high...

As a first step of implementing an energy resilient community cluster system, we apply clustering algorithms, including two graph partitioning algorithms and a stochastic optimization algorithm, to electricity self-sufficient community clusters in Yokohama city, Japan. The cluster extraction results are compared in terms of the resulting cost funct...

In order to design energy resilient communities against disaster-driven blackout risks, this paper propose a new system to share photovoltaic (PV) generated green electricity using V2G technology, which we call vehicle to community (V2C) system. In this system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels (PVs) is stored i...

This paper extends the concept of our proposed [Yamagata and Seya, 2012] electricity storage sharing system as a complement or alternative to a feed-in tariff (FiT) to achieve CO2-neutral transportation in cities. In our proposed system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels (PVs) is stored in the "cars not in use"...