This Week's Update － A Year from the Great East Japan Earthquake, Thinking about the Future of Energy (5th March, 2012)
This Week's Columns
It is soon a year from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Japan is gradually recovering from the earthquake and the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.
There are certainly heap of problems, however, in the field of energy, management of TEPCO, and how to introduce renewable energy awaits solution.
1) Ms. Sumiko Takeuchi, a critic in the field of energy and environmental issues, contributed a column “On the solar panel over my head” (English translation coming soon), from her experience using solar power generation at home.
Solar power is popular, and we have high expectations, however, it makes us wonder whether its moody generation is something that we can laugh about and accept.
2) Prof. Takeo Kikkawa, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School, contributed “What to do with TEPCO” (English translation coming soon). Upon appraising the ability of the people who works at the site, he shows the point of issue of how TEPCO should be and an ideal energy system.
