16 October, 2020
Government’s Strategic Policy Committee Starts Deliberations toward Revision of Strategic Energy Plan
On October 13, the Strategic Policy Committee, under the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy (chaired by Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor of the Prefectural University of Kumamoto), launched deliberations toward issuance of the next Strategic Energy Plan.
The current Strategic Energy Plan, Japan’s fifth, was decided upon by the Cabinet in July 2018. It presents a goal for an energy mix to 2030—namely, the steady realization of an energy mix with a nuclear energy component of 20-22% and a renewable component of 22-24%—along with related policies to 2050, and goes on to discuss the challenges in energy transitions and decarbonization technologies.
In an address at the start of the recent meeting, Hiroshi Kajiyama, head of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) noted that the legal deadline of 2021 for reviewing the strategic plan was approaching, adding that next year would also mark in achieving the goal of “3E+S” (the three E’s of energy security, enhanced economic efficiency and environmental compatibility, along with the S ...more
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10 September, 2020
New Report Released on Nuclear Power’s Role in Dealing with Environment Issues
A subcommittee of experts at the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ), having carried out a quantitative analysis of data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and others, released a final report on September 4 on the potential of using nuclear power to deal with environmental issues.
Recognizing that nuclear power technology, with its enhanced safety and reliability, provides an important technological option for Japan in boosting its efforts on environmental issues and aiding its contribution to sustainable global development, the AESJ report makes various proposals, including those on issues related to energy security, the power market, and radioactive waste.
The subcommittee, in its analysis, determined the environmental value of nuclear power using a bottom-up energy system model, examining two scenarios for future nuclear use reducing CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The first is the so-called reference scenario, wherein the service lives of existing nuclear power plants (NPPs) are extended to sixty years and no new plants are built, and the so-called reten...more
