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The governance for offshore wind in Japan
- Source :
- Energy Procedia. 158:297-301
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Effective governance is crucial for developing various renewable energies, especially in their early stages. After the spectacular growth of onshore wind in the past decade, offshore wind is attracting an increasing amount of attention globally. As an archipelago and facing electricity shortage after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has been accelerating its pace of developing offshore wind. However, the Japanese government encounters the challenge of adapting its old institution to the new governance demand. This research analyzes the evolution of offshore wind policies and evaluates the progress of inter-ministerial collaboration in Japan. It is found that from the initial potential surveys to the final setting of offshore wind feed-in tariff, the relations between relevant agencies were more characterized by inter-ministerial competitions than collaborations. The deeply rooted traditional sectionalism continues to affect the development of offshore wind and may slow down the progress of energy transition in Japan.
- Subjects :
- Government
business.industry
020209 energy
Corporate governance
Tariff
Sectionalism
02 engineering and technology
International trade
Energy transition
Renewable energy
Offshore wind power
020401 chemical engineering
Sea breeze
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
0204 chemical engineering
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18766102
- Volume :
- 158
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Energy Procedia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e991eac072084d449a246f2cd9998746