Keidanren Chairman To decarbonize "Structural reform of electric power industry is necessary" to announce on 9th November 7th 6:20
Keidanren Chairman Nakanishi said that "structural reform of the electric power industry, including industry restructuring," is necessary to realize the government's policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero as a whole by 2050. We have put together a proposal to make a statement and decided to announce it at the government's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy to be held on the 9th.
The government has set a policy of aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero as a whole by 2050, and discussions and efforts to achieve this are becoming active in the business community.
According to people familiar with the matter, Keidanren Chairman Nakanishi, who is a private member of the government's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, suggested that "structural reform of the electric power industry, including industry restructuring," would be necessary to realize the government's policy. It means that we have put together.
In this, Chairman Nakanishi has a policy to emphasize the need to use renewable energy as the main power source.
However, in order to introduce renewable energy such as solar power and wind power, the amount of power generated fluctuates greatly depending on the weather, so huge investment such as strengthening the power transmission and distribution network and developing large storage batteries is indispensable, and reorganization of existing electric power companies. We are proposing that structural reforms including the above are necessary.
Chairman Nakanishi aims to increase the momentum toward the realization of a carbon-free society by consolidating the policy of expressing these proposals at the government's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy to be held on the 9th and even reorganizing electric power companies. It seems that.