Energy Management System (EMS): Current Status and Future Outlook

摘要

Energy self-sufficiency in Japan is as low as 4%, and most of its energy comes from fossil fuels such as petroleum and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Improving energy self-sufficiency and securing energy security have been longstanding challenges after the first oil crisis. In addition, recently, energy consumption has been rapidly increasing against the background of economic growth of newly developing countries including China and global environmental issues are becoming more serious in addition to the issue of stable acquisition of energy. As one of the counter measures to these issues, proactive utilization of clean renewable energy is promoted as a policy, and the "Feed-in Tariff Scheme for renewable energy" has been in place since 2012.