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Create New Businesses
In fiscal 2012, NEC worked together with Nissan
Motor Co., Ltd. to ensure steady mass production
and shipments of electrodes for automotive lithium-
ion rechargeable batteries, a key component of
these batteries. In addition, NEC strove to actively
conduct trials aimed at enhancing the practicality
and reliability of electric vehicle (EV) charging
infrastructure, along with promoting related
standardization, in support of greater uptake of this
infrastructure. NEC also commenced sales of cloud-
based charging systems that reduce the workload of
charging station operators through the provision of
cloud-based remote control and monitoring of
charging stations. For the household sector, NEC
began offering a Home Energy Management System
(HEMS) that makes household power consumption
and electricity charges more visible using cloud-
based services. NEC also launched sales of small-
scale energy storage systems enabling households
to conserve power consumption.
NEC also worked toward achieving new city
development initiatives utilizing information and
communications technology (ICT). To this end, NEC
actively implemented a range of measures in
collaboration with various partners worldwide,
including participation in a smart city development
planned in a major Brazilian city, with the view to
build a new energy efficient society.
In addition to implementing these measures to
achieve the key initiatives of “V2012,” NEC made
progress on other fronts to enhance the
competitiveness of its businesses. In the electronic
component business, NEC TOKIN Corporation
reached an agreement on forming a capital and
business alliance with KEMET Corporation of the
U.S. In addition, NEC integrated the domestic PC
business with Lenovo Group Limited.
NEW BUSINESS ACTIVITIES (SMART ENERGY)
EV Charging
Infrastructure EVs Smart Houses Stores BEMS Power Supply
Side
● Launched cloud-based small-scale energy storage system
● Co-development of intelligent distribution panel with Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd.
● Development and field trials of distributed energy management and control system technology using
storage batteries with ORIX Corporation
● Launched ultra-low power magnetic sensors for water and gas meters
● Launched cloud-based quick chargers and charging systems
● Launched Home Energy Management System (HEMS)
● Began demonstration project for Battery and Charger Integration Systems for next generation
service stations as part of Yokohama City’s “Yokohama Smart City Project”
● Developed new technology which more than doubles the life of manganese Li-ion rechargeable batteries
● Developed new power grid to easily introduce renewable energy with the University of Tokyo and the
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
● Participated in smart city
development in Brazil
● Established “Smart City Promotion Office”
● Participated in “Smart City Project”
● Strategic partnership
with Enel Distribuzione
S.p.A. on the
development of the
Next-Generation Smart
Grid system
● Surveyed the
deployment of energy
management
technologies for mobile
phone base stations in
India
● Basic research to realize
green township in
Malaysia
● Feasibility study of smart
community for overseas
market in Indonesia
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NEC Corporation
Annual Report 2012