Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 39, Issue 11, Pages 6842-6854Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.10.016
Keywords
Energy policy; Wind power; Japan
Funding
- Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore)
- AGS (the Alliance for Global Sustainability) at the University of Tokyo
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This paper analyzes Japan's national power generation strategy with a view to explaining Japan's phlegmatic approach to wind energy development. The analysis concludes that Japan's current power generation strategy is not optimized to achieve the government's three strategic energy objectives of simultaneously enhancing economic security, national energy security and environmental security (3Es). To achieve long-run energy sustainability, Japan needs to strive to phase out nuclear power, which is the centerpiece of its current power generation strategy. The analysis concludes by offering four suggestions for a sustainable 3E power generation strategy: (1) internalize all external costs associated with power generation technologies in order to level the economic playing field, (2) increase feed-in mandates for renewable energy to 20%, (3) fully liberalize the power generation industry and (4) intensify R&D in energy storage technologies to support intermittent renewable technologies. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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