Capital and Business Alliance with Greenphard Energy Inc.

Suzuyo Shoji Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shizuoka City; President and CEO: Masahiko Ito; hereinafter "Suzuyo Shoji") announces that it has invested in Greenphard Energy Inc. (Headquarters: Minato Ward, Tokyo; CEO: Kento Nishiyama; hereinafter "Greenphard Energy"), a company that provides energy management services using physical AI and IoT technologies to optimize power usage in refrigeration, cold storage, and air conditioning equipment, and has entered into a capital and business alliance.

Background and Purpose

With rising electricity prices and increasing demands for decarbonization, refrigeration, cold storage, and air conditioning systems account for a significant portion of power consumption in food manufacturing plants, low-temperature logistics warehouses, retail stores, and commercial facilities. As a result, energy efficiency and operational cost reduction have become critical business challenges. However, these facilities often consist of equipment from multiple manufacturers with varying operating conditions across sites, making cross-device optimal control and flexible responses to supply-demand fluctuations structurally difficult.

Additionally, mechanisms are being established to reward consumers who contribute to balancing electricity supply and demand, expanding new revenue opportunities through participation in demand response (DR) programs. However, practical implementation requires advanced data analytics and control expertise.

Greenphard Energy offers a SaaS-type service using its proprietary intelligent IoT technology to integrate and control refrigeration, cold storage, and air conditioning equipment from multiple manufacturers, optimizing power usage while maintaining acceptable temperature ranges. The service consists of two core offerings: "IoT Energy Solution," which achieves over 20% energy savings through peak shifting and reduced power consumption, and "IoT DR Solution," which creates DR resources through timing shifts such as pre-cooling (overcooling). The company already has numerous implementations, primarily with major food manufacturers and logistics operators.

Through this alliance, Suzuyo Shoji will combine its sales infrastructure and installation capabilities in energy solutions with Greenphard Energy's advanced power optimization technology to expand its portfolio of energy-saving and decarbonization solutions for industrial equipment, contributing to reduced electricity costs and lower environmental impact for its customers.

Greenphard Energy's Business Overview

· Energy-Saving Service: "IoT Energy Solution"

This service involves retrofitting high-load equipment such as refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners with dedicated IoT units. By analyzing external temperatures, equipment characteristics, and operational status in real time, it optimizes equipment operation within acceptable temperature ranges to achieve energy savings. It simultaneously reduces peak demand and total power consumption, lowering both basic and usage-based electricity charges without affecting equipment operation or product quality. A key advantage is that it can be implemented without major equipment upgrades.

· DR Service: "IoT DR Solution"

To prepare for periods of tight electricity supply and demand, this service uses methods such as pre-cooling ("charging") to store cooling energy in advance, then utilizes the stored cold during peak hours to suppress power usage ("discharging"). This allows the creation of DR resources without stopping equipment. A portion of the revenue generated by contributing this adjustment capacity to capacity markets and supply-demand adjustment markets is returned to customers, transforming power-consuming equipment—previously a cost center—into a new revenue source.

Provided by: Greenphard Energy Inc.

*1: Demand Response (DR) is a mechanism where electricity consumers actively adjust their usage patterns in response to utility requests or market price fluctuations, contributing to the stability of the overall power grid.

Company Overview

About Greenphard Energy

"Creating clean power from refrigeration, cold storage, and air conditioning"
Greenphard Energy integrates cutting-edge physical AI and IoT technologies with the latest electricity market frameworks, such as Virtual Power Plants (VPP), transforming refrigeration, cold storage, and air conditioning systems into "power-generating devices." By integrating and controlling these systems at the regional level, entire communities can function as virtual power plants, simultaneously contributing to stable local power supply and the widespread adoption of clean energy. The company also achieves over 20% energy savings and equipment digitization.

Company Name: Greenphard Energy Inc.
Established: March 2021
Representative: Kento Nishiyama
Headquarters: SN Building 9F, 1-4-22 Kaigan, Minato Ward, Tokyo
Business: Optimization control of power demand equipment using digital technologies and related energy services
URL: https://greenphard.com/about-us/

About Suzuyo Shoji Co., Ltd.

Suzuyo Shoji Co., Ltd. supplies energy such as oil, gas, and electricity, and also provides products and services that support customer decarbonization, including solar power generation, battery storage, and CO2 visualization services. As a general trading company, it offers a wide range of products and services, including construction materials, chemicals, labor-saving and automation solutions for manufacturing sites, and digitalization support for office operations.
URL: https://www.suzuyoshoji.co.jp/business.html

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