Power Market Restructuring for Renewables Integration | Events

Increasing deployment of renewables is transforming the power market in Japan. But much faster integration of renewables is required to avoid climate crisis.

In Japan many new markets are introduced in the system; base-load market, capacity market, non-fossil fuel value trading market, unbundling of incumbent power utilities will be introduced by April 2020.

In conjunction with this development, Renewable Energy Institute hosted a conference on Japan's power market restructuring to discuss what is desired to facilitate the integration of a high share of renewables to the market.

Program

Keynote:
Power Market Reform and Integration of VREs
Matthew Wittenstein Energy Analyst (Former at Gas Coal Electricity Market, International Energy Agency) DL

Presentations:
Power Market Reform in Japan
Takahiro Shimomura Director, Electricity Industry and Market Office, Agency for Natural Resource and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and IndustryDL
Proposal for Market Reform
Mika Ohbayashi Dirctor, Renewable Energy Institute

Panel Discussion: Power System Reform for Integration of Renewables
(in alphabetical order)
Keiji Kimura, Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy InstituteDL
Ryoichi Kunimatsu, General Manager Japan Electric Power Exchange
Toshihiro Matsumura, Professor, University of TokyoDL
Hiroshi Okamoto, Executive Vice-President, TEPCO Power Grid, IncorporatedDL
Takahiro Shimomura, Director, Electricity Industry and Market Office, Agency for Natural Resource and Energy/Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade
Hiroshi Takahashi, Professor, Tsuru UniversityDL