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REvision2013 Creating a New Renewable Energy Future

26 February 2013

  • Amory B. Lovins
    Amory B. Lovins
    Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist,
    Rocky Mountain Institute
    For more than 4 decades, Amory B. Lovins has been advising about the nexus of energy, resources, environment, development, and security in more than 50 countries including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. He is widely considered among the world’s leading authorities on energy—especially its efficient use and sustainable supply—and a fertile innovator in integrative design. He has published more than 30 books and 470 papers, and won numerous awards including the Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative Nobel”) , the Onassis Foundation’s first Delphi Prize (one of the world’s top environmental awards), the Nissan Prize, the Blue Planet Prize, and the Shingo Prize (Nobel –like prize in Manufacturing). In 2009, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Foreign Policy and one of the 100 top global thinkers. His 31st book with a large RMI team, Reinventing Fire, published in autumn 2011, is a detailed roadmap for eliminating U.S. oil and coal use by 2050, led by business for profit.
  • Ichiro Takahara
    Ichiro Takahara
    Director-General, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
    Ichiro Takahara graduated in law from The University of Tokyo and entered the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 1979. His career path has included service as the Director of the Promotion Division, Policy Planning Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency; Director of the Research Division, Industrial Policy Bureau; Counsellor in the Administrative Reform Promotion Bureau of the Cabinet Secretariat; Director of the Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Division, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group; and Director of the Budget and Accounts Division in the METI Minister’s Secretariat. In 2005, he was appointed Director-General of the Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE). Before taking up his present position in 2011, Takahara successively held the positions of Vice President of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI); Director-General of the Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency; Director-General for Small and Medium Enterprise Policy; Director-General of the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency.
  • Harald Neitzel
    Harald Neitzel
    Deputy Director, KIII3, Federal Ministry for the Environment,
    Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
    Harald Neitzel has studied Political Science. He started his professional career in the 80ies in the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) (Berlin), responsible for Environmental Labelling (“Blue Angel”) und Green Public Procurement. He continued to work in UBA in the 90ies as Head of a Section, covering a wide variety of issues on product related environmental protection including sustainable consumption patterns, life-cycle assessments for products and services or “faire trade”. He covered as well responsibilities on the international level as a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Ecolabelling Network or Head of the German Delegation of activities within the ISO 14000 processes.
    Since 2000 he worked in the International Division of the BMU responsible for bilateral cooperation with several countries (e.g. Japan, Mexico and Turkey), security implications of climate change and, particularly in recent years, international cooperation on renewable energy including project-related responsibilities within the International Climate Initiative of the BMU, in particular in Latin American countries including Brazil, Mexico and Chile. He was invited to be Vice-Chair of the Working Party for Global and Structural Policies of the OECD from 2006 to 2010. In 2009 he was appointed to represent BMU in the Investment Committee of GEEREF (Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund).
    Harald Neitzel was born in the year 1954. He is married and has two children (11 and 9 years). His private interests include the operation of a PV and a solar thermal plant.
  • Izumi Kaizuka
    Izumi Kaizuka
    Manager, Research Division
    RTS Corporation
    Ms Izumi Kaizuka is the manager of Research Division of RTS Corporation, Tokyo. She has been Japan’s representative of Task 1, information exchange and communication working group of IEA PVPS since 2003. She is the one of the authors of “IEA PVPS ApplicAtions”. She has been working for various research projects on PV for the government, agencies and organizations and manufacturers in Japan and overseas. She has been invited to various PV conferences in Japan and overseas; EUPVSEC, Inter Solar PV Industry Forum, Solar Power International , etc.
  • Tetsuro Nagata
    Executive Advisor, Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation
    Following a multifaceted career at Tokyo Electric Power Company (i.e. corporate planning, business development, environment management, tariff and contract, etc.), he served as President and CEO of Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation from 2003 to 2012. During these 9 years he succeeded in expanding its world-wide wind power business more than tripled, and in initiating utility-scale solar power business overseas. In 2010, he was elected President of Japan Wind Power Association, and is now responsible for promoting the wind power industry in Japan. He is also Director of New Energy Foundation since 2004. He graduated from the University of Tokyo (bachelor of economics) and the University of Chicago (MBA).
  • Hisashi Kajiyama
    Senior Research Fellow, Economic research Center,
    Fujitsu Research Institute
    1981-1989 Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1990-2009 Economist of Nikko Research Center London/Frankfurt office, Fujitsu Research Institute. 2009 -2011 Deputy Director General of the Cabinet Office & Special Adviser to Minister president Naoto Kan. Since Nov.2011 Senior Research Fellow of the Fujitsu Research Institute.
  • Sachio Ehara
    Director, Institute for Geothermal Information /Emeritus Professor, Kyushu University
    Teaching and researching geothermal energy more than 30 years at Hokkaido Univ. and Kyushu Univ.
    President of the Geothermal Research Society of Japan from 2006 to 2010 and Board Member of International Geothermal Association from 2001 to 2007. Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University and Director of Institute for Geothermal Information from April, 2012
  • Yugo Nakamura
    Lead Analyst, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
    Yugo Nakamura heads Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s team in Japan. Based in Tokyo, he manages the company’s clean energy and carbon analysis of Japanese policy, markets, and technologies. Prior to joining, he executed a number of international energy- and carbon-related projects throughout his career with RNK Capital, the World Bank, and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. He has extensive experience as an analyst on energy and has conducted various research studies to aid business decisions in this area. Yugo holds a Master of International Public Policy from School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in Political Science from Waseda University. He is a CFA charterholder and belongs to CFA Society of Japan.
  • Javier San Miguel Armendáriz
    Manager, Strategy and Business Development,
    Spain National Renewable Energy Center
    Javier San Miguel Armendáriz is the Strategy Development & Business Manager of the Spanish Renewable Energy Center (CENER). He graduated in Industrial Engineering from the Public University of Navarre, and completed a BEng in Power Engineering at Staffordshire University and MPhil in Power Electronics and Traction Systems at the University of Birmingham.
    Javier worked in Naval Propulsion, Railway Traction and Power Generation Sytems until he initiated the production activities of the first wind turbine Manufacturer in the UK. He then joined the Spanish Renewable Energy Center promoting its research projects i
  • Mikael Odenberg
    President and CEO, Svenska Kräftnat (Swedish TSO)
    Mikael Odenberg has held various public offices since the mid 1970s. He entered Parliament after the general elections in 1991 representing the Stockholm Constituency for the Moderate Party. He remained in Parliament for 16 years until he resigned in 2007. In Parliament, Odenberg served as Party Spokesman on Energy Affairs (1994 – 1998) and on Labour Market Affairs (1998 – 2002). He was Parliamentary Leader for the Moderate Party from 2003 to 2006 and was appointed Minister for Defence after the general elections in 2006. After resigning from the cabinet post in 2007, in 2008 he was appointed President and CEO of Affärsverket Svenska Kraftnät (ASK; Swedish National Grid) – a state-owned public utility and operator of the Swedish electricity transmission system. Odenberg is also a member of the Government’s Crisis Management Council, the Government’s Coordination Council for Smart Grids and the Board of Directors of the Swedish Agency for Government Employers.
    ASK was established in 1992, when the state-owned power company Vattenfall was split into two separate entities, one responsible for power generation and the other for power transmission, to supply Sweden’s power needs. It also has a 20% share in the power trading market Nord Pool Spot, owned by the 4 Nordic Transmission system operators.
  • Boris Schucht
    CEO, 50Hertz (German TSO)
    Boris Schucht, born in 1967, has been Chief Executive Officer of 50Hertz since 2010. He previously served as Commercial Managing Director at WEMAG AG, a distribution system operator in Northern Germany, and held the position of Managing Director at Vattenfall Europe Venture GmbH in Berlin for five years. As Deputy Head of Department, he was also responsible for Corporate Development at Vattenfall Europe AG during that time.
    He is a member of the ENTSO-E Assembly and is strongly engaged in grid development. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Aachen.
  • Annegret Groebel
    Head of Dept of International Relations/ Postal Regulation,
    BNetzA ( Federal Network Agency)
    Annegret Groebel joined the Bundesnetzagentur, the German Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway, as a member of the Ruling Chamber for Interconnection and Access and then became head of the unit for International Coordination, directly reporting to the President, in 2001. In 2009, she was promoted to the position of Head of the Department of International Relations/Postal Regulation. In March 2012 she was appointed Vice-President of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). She has an excellent knowledge of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications and its implementation as well as the regulatory framework for the internal energy market. She has experience in advising public authorities on regulatory reform and sector specific regulation. Currently, she is very much involved in implementing the 2009 Internal Energy Market Package in Germany as well as the new Energy Infrastructure Regulation, trying to incentivize investment in European energy infrastructure in order to secure supply by boosting the European internal energy market and expanding the existing grid infrastructure to connect Europe in order to be able to handle the transition to a carbon free ("green") energy by integrating renewables into the grid.
  • Hiroshi Takahash
    Research Fellow, Fujitsu Research Institute
    Hiroshi Takahashi is the Research Fellow at the Fujitsu Research Institute. He specializes in electric power policy with focus on market liberalization, grid unbundling, renewable energy and smart grid, actively participating in policy formation as a member of Energy Basic Policy Committee as well as Power System Reform Committee of the Japanese Government.
    He has obtained doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo and master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His former career includes a product planner at Sony Corporation, Deputy Director at IT Policy Office of Cabinet Secretariat of the Government, and Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of “Market Liberalization of Electric Utilities” published by Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppan-sha.
  • Steve Sawyer
    Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council
    Steve Sawyer joined the Global Wind Energy Council as its first Secretary General in April 2007. The Global Wind Energy Council represents the major wind energy associations (China, India, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Canada, USA, Europe, Denmark, UK, Germany, Spain & Italy) as well as the major companies involved in the global wind industry. As of the end of 2012, cumulative global installed wind power capacity exceeded 282,000 MW, with over 44,000 MW installed in 2012, representing capital investment of more than 60 billion euros. See http://www.gwec.net
    Steve has worked in the energy and environment field since 1978, with a particular focus on climate change and renewable energy since 1988. He spent many years working for Greenpeace International, representing the organization at intergovernmental and industry fora primarily on energy and climate issues. He was the CEO of both Greenpeace USA (’86 to ’88) and Greenpeace International (’88-93’), and a member of its international Board of Directors from 1983-1988 and 1993-1995. He has served as Head of Delegation to many UNFCCC negotiations, as well as leading delegations to many other intergovernmental negotiations.
    Steve is also a founding member of the REN21 Renewable Energy Policy Network and was an advisor to the Chinese government on the formulation of its renewable energy legislation, as well as an expert reviewer for the IPCC’s Working Group III. He grew up in rural New Hampshire and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College, is married to Kelly Rigg, has two children Layla (24) and Sam (19) and has lived in Amsterdam since 1989.
  • Eric Martinot
    Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)
    Eric Martinot is an internationally recognized scholar, writer, and teacher on the subject of renewable energy. He is report author of the just-released REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report, and was lead author until 2010 of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report. He currently serves as senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo and adjunct professor with Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He also holds research affiliations with the Worldwatch Institute and the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association. He lived in Beijing for three years as senior visiting scholar at Tsinghua University, and was formerly senior energy specialist with the World Bank, renewable energy program manager with the Global Environment Facility, and adjunct professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. He has written 70 publications on renewable and sustainable energy since 1990, and holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Masayoshi Son
    Founder and Chairperson
    Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF)
    Masayoshi Son was born in 1957 in Tosu City of Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. A year after graduating from the Economics Department of UC Berkeley, Son founded and became the president and CEO of Japan Softbank, the predecessor of current Softbank Corp in 1981. Softbank Corp went public in 1994, and two years later in 1996, he launched Yahoo Japan Corporation as a joint venture with Yahoo! Inc. US, running the enterprise as the president and CEO, then as the chairman and CEO. In 2001, Son started to provide an ADSL service “Yahoo! BB” in partnership with Yahoo Japan Corporation, and made a high profile acquisition of Vodafone KK (predecessor of Softbank Mobile KK) in April of 2006.
    Currently he retains multiple positions including the president and CEO of Softbank Corp, the chairman and CEO of Softbank Mobile KK, Softbank BB KK, and Softbank Telecom KK. Son is also known as the owner of the Fukuoka Softbank HAWKS (a Japanese professional baseball team based in Kyushu.)
    After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, he founded and assumed office of the chairman of the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation to promote the use of renewable energy resources.
  • Tomas Kåberger
    Chair of Executive Board
    Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF)
    Professor, Chalmers University, Sweden
    Currently Tomas Kåberger spends a quarter of his time in Japan as Executive Board Chairman of the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation.
    Academically, he got an MSc in Engineering Physics, a PhD in Physical Resource Theory, and Docent in Environmental Science at Chalmers. He has been professor in International Sustainable Energy Systems at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, and he is currently Professor of Industrial Energy Policy at Chalmers University of Technology and serves as Distinguished Visiting Expert of bio-energy technology at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.
    Industrially, he has had leading roles in companies providing fuels and technology in the bio--‐energy industry, another company developing sustainable energy solutions for the automotive industry, and a company operating wind power plants. He currently serves on the board if Industrifonden, an industrial investment foundation.
    Politically, he has served on board of Swedish and European Environmental Citizen’s organizations, several Swedish Government Committees developing energy and environmental legislation, and China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development as a member of a task force on Low--‐Carbon Industrialization Strategies. From 2008 until 2011 he was Director General of the National Swedish Energy Agency.
  • Takejiro Sueyoshi
    Vice-Chair of Executive Board
    Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF)
    Takejiro Sueyoshi was born on January 3, 1945 in Kagoshima, Japan.
    After graduating from Tokyo University, he joined the Mitsubishi Bank (the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) in 1967 and worked for the bank until 1998.
    During his years with Nikko Asset Management as Deputy President, he was appointed as a member of the UNEP FI Steering Committee. In addition to the involvement in the UNEP FI activities in the Asia Pacific Region, he is giving many educational speeches about environmental problems and CSR/SRI in various government councils, seminars, universities and TV programs. He is a Trustee member of Carbon Disclosure Project. He was a member of the Council for Japan’s Prime Minister on Climate Change Policy.
    His publications includes “Ondanka Kogi (A lecture on Global Warming)” (Toyo Keizai), “Yugai Rensa (Chain of Harmfulness)” (Gentousha), “Green New Deal” (Editor,Kankyou Shinbun), “Saishin CSR Jijyo( The Newest Book on CSR)”(Hokuseido).
  • Mika Ohbayashi
    Director, Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF)
    Mika Ohbayashi is Director at Japan Renewable Energy Foundation. Before joining the foundation, Ms. Ohbayashi worked for International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as Policy and Project Regional Manager for Asia Oceania, which HQ is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from May 2010 to Aug 2011. She is one of two founders of Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP), and served as Deputy Director for 8 years since its establishment in 2000. She also worked for UKFCO at the British Embassy to Japan, as Advisor for Climate Change Projects and Policies after leaving ISEP. She started her carrier in the energy fields by joining Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in 1992, after some years work experience. She coordinates many scientific study projects, takes leadership to team up various networks including national parliamentarians and local authorities, domestically and internationally to improve sustainable energy society.

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