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Kikusato Lab
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Designing the energy infrastructure of the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing the energy infrastructure of the future.
Kikusato Lab works toward a sustainable energy society, conducting research on energy networks centered on electric power.
In its laboratory, the lab has built a virtual demonstration environment for large-scale power and energy networks, and carries out practical verification by combining digital technology with actual power equipment.
The lab also actively collaborates with research institutions and companies in Japan and abroad, advancing research and development aimed at real-world implementation while using state-of-the-art research facilities.
It is a new lab, established in April 2025.
Key terms
- Power system
- The whole system of connected generation, transmission, and distribution facilities that delivers electricity from power plants to homes and factories
- Virtual demonstration environment
- A test environment that simulates the behavior of a large-scale power network on computers in real time, and to which actual equipment can be connected for testing
- Supply-demand balance
- Matching the amount of electricity generated with the amount used at every instant. If the balance breaks down, it can lead to blackouts
NewsLab news
An open lab event ahead of lab assignments for academic year 2025 was held in September
Associate Professor Kikusato joined, and Kikusato Lab was launched
A paper by Associate Professor Kikusato and colleagues was published in Sustainability
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming at a sustainable energy society, the lab studies energy networks centered on electric power. It has built a virtual demonstration environment for large-scale networks in its laboratory, and combines digital technology with actual power equipment to carry out verification with an eye to real-world implementation.
*Illustrative imageConnecting to the energy network
The lab develops technologies to safely and efficiently integrate renewable energy power generation facilities, and new electric load equipment such as data centers, hydrogen production equipment, and electric vehicles, into existing networks. Because the output of solar and wind power varies greatly with the weather, control technologies that connect them while maintaining stability are essential.
*Illustrative imageDiagnosing the energy network
The lab develops technologies for analyzing and evaluating the state of the network, which are essential for stable operation. It uses AI to analyze large volumes of operational data and simulation results, working on detecting signs of faults, locating fault points, and supporting recovery. In the virtual demonstration environment, it also evaluates in detail the effects when control algorithms and equipment under development are connected to an actual network.
*Illustrative imageWeaving the energy network together
To balance supply and demand in networks dominated by renewable energy, the lab combines diverse forms of energy storage with data networks. In addition to the control of storage batteries, pumped-storage hydropower, and electric vehicles, and the storage of heat and hydrogen, it also examines methods of shifting power consumption by flexibly allocating the computing loads of data centers across time and location.
MembersFaculty
Kikusato Lab's members are faculty and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHiroshi Kikusato
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016” NASA Earth Observatory / Public domain (cropped)
- Connecting to the energy network: “Taipei Taiwan Electrical-Substation-at-Taipei-Zoo-South-Station-01” CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Diagnosing the energy network: “2023 Stetoskop” Jacek Halicki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Weaving the energy network together: “CRETAN LOOM- HEADLLES” SEN Heritage Looms - Sophia Tsourinaki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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