An Industrial workshop on OCPP co-organised by OCA and CHAdeMO was held on 4 March, as a continuation of the OCA-CHAdeMO industrial workshop of 22 April 2024.
Ms Lonneke Driessen, Mr Baerte de Brey, and Mr Milan Jansen of ElaadNL/OCA came from the Netherlands and attended this workshop.
The workshop was conducted in a hybrid style, with around 30 in-person participants at Zen Suido Kaikan in Tokyo and more than 60 participants online.
Among the updates were reports on the IEC adaptation (IEC 63584), which was completed in 2024, the chatbot on the OCA website, which now allows questions to be asked in Japanese, and progress on the Japanese version of the OCPP.
The programme:
- Opening remarks [Secretary General Kazumasa Arai]
- Update on the OCA, etc. [Ms Lonneke Driessen]
- Updates since the last workshop (22 April 2024) [Ms Lonneke Driessen]
- The environment surrounding OCPP in Japan [Mr Koichi Tateishi, e-Mobility Power]
- Q&As and exchange of opinions
- Closing remarks [Mr Tomomi Hakomori, Secretariat]
In the final Q&A section, questions were raised such as whether EV charging could be simulated using the OCPP test tool (→ yes) and what DER supoprt means in OCPP 2.1 (→ refers to bi-directional charging support), among others.
