Journal
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 395-410Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-021-00935-w
Keywords
Demand-side decarbonization; Electrification; Multi-model scenario analysis
Funding
- Environment Research and Technology Development Fund of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency [2-1704]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP20K14860, JP20H02679, JP17H03531]
- Environmental Research and Technology Development Fund of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan [JPMEERF20201002]
- Sumitomo Foundation
- Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models (TOUGOU) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan [JPMXD0717935457]
- Strategic Operation Fund and the Strategic Research Fund of IGES
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Japan's long-term strategy emphasizes the importance of improving electrification rates to reduce GHG emissions, with a focus on switching from fossil fuel technologies to electricity technologies. Concrete measures are needed to accelerate the dissemination of electricity end-use technologies in order to achieve the suggested electrification rates by 2050.
Japan's long-term strategy submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change emphasizes the importance of improving the electrification rates to reducing GHG emissions. Using the five models participating in Energy Modeling Forum 35 Japan Model Intercomparison project (JMIP), we focused on the demand-side decarbonization and analyzed the final energy composition required to achieve 80% reductions in GHGs by 2050 in Japan. The model results show that the electricity share in final energy use (electrification rate) needs to reach 37-66% in 2050 (26% in 2010) to achieve the emissions reduction of 80%. The electrification rate increases mainly due to switching from fossil fuel end-use technologies (i.e. oil water heater, oil stove and combustion-engine vehicles) to electricity end-use technologies (i.e. heat pump water heater and electric vehicles). The electricity consumption in 2050 other than AIM/Hub ranged between 840 and 1260 TWh (AIM/Hub: 1950TWh), which is comparable to the level seen in the last 10 years (950-1035 TWh). The pace at which electrification rate must be increased is a challenge. The model results suggest to increase the electrification pace to 0.46-1.58%/yr from 2030 to 2050. Neither the past electrification pace (0.30%/year from 1990 to 2010) nor the outlook of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (0.15%/year from 2010 to 2030) is enough to reach the suggested electrification rates in 2050. Therefore, more concrete measures to accelerate dissemination of electricity end-use technologies across all sectors need to be established.
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