Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF) organized regular study sessions on Feed-in Tariff (FIT) of Japan, and co-hosted a 2-day international workshop on FIT with prominent experts from Germany and UK. The 1st day of the event was open to the public and the 2nd day was a closed session where experts had in-depth discussions on institutional design of ideal FIT for Japan.

The deliverables of the workshop will be fed to the deliberations at Procurement Price Calculation Committee starting from January 2012 and incorporated in proposals to the Japanese Government.

Date

Public event: 13:00 -16:00, Thursday, 8th December 2011

Venue

Media Hall, 3F Tokyo International Exchange Center
2-2-1 Aoumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo

Agenda

Public event
Thursday, 8 December 2011

12:30	Doors open
13:00～13:10	Opening remarks Dr. Tomas Kåberger Chair of Executive Board, JREF
13:10～13:30	Outline of FIT to be introduced by JPGOV Masato YasudaDL Deputy Director, New and Renewable Energy Division, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
13:30～14:15	Presentations and Comments from the outside Japan Dr. Dorte FouquetDL Lawyer, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF) / BHB Mr. Toby D. CoutureDL Director of Energy Analysis, E3 Analytics, London UK & Canada: Lead consultant and manager of energy analysis
14:15～14:30	Key points of institutional design of FIT Dr. Tetsunari IidaDL Executive Director, ISEP
14:30～15:50	Panel discussion Dr. Dorte Fouquet, Lawyer, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF) / BHB Mr. Toby D. Couture, Director of Energy Analysis, E3 Analytics, London UK & Canada: Lead consultant and manager of energy analysis Dr. Tomas Ka*berger, Chair of Executive Board, JREF Dr. Tetsunari Iida, Executive Director, ISEP Dr. Eric Martinot, Senior Research Director, ISEP Mr. Masato Yasuda, Deputy Director of New an Renewable Energy Division, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department Agency for Natural Resources and Energy Mr. Hisashi Kajiyama, Research Fellow, Economic Research Center,Fujitsu Research Institute
15:50～16:00	Closing remark Dr. Tetsunari Iida, Executive Director, ISEP
16:00～16:30	Press Q&A Session