Future perspective of energy system in Japan

Author: Kihara, Shigemitsu

Source: Materials at High Temperatures, Volume 20, Number 2, May 2003 , pp. 241-145(-95)

Publisher: Science Reviews 2000 Ltd

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Abstract:

The Kyoto Protocol adopted at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997 commits Japan to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels during the first commitment period (2012). The forecast of electricity demand and capacity to be installed at 2010 suggests that the demand and installed capacity will increase, but that the consumption for thermal power will be suppressed. People's attitudes towards saving energy and improvement of efficiency of power generation need to change. Also because all fuels are imported into Japan, diversity of energy source, oil, coal, LNG, Nuclear, should be retained.

Keywords: energy systems in Japan

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3184/096034003782748991

Affiliations: 1: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (IHI), Japan

Publication date: 2003-05-15

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