TEPCO to Provide Information on Climate Change Mitigation on Statements and Web Site

Starting in August 2002, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan (TEPCO), started providing information on what households can do to mitigate climate change, in its monthly electricity usage statements for customers and on the company web site. These services are intended to inform residential users how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released from energy consumption in daily life and to encourage them to actively take part in energy conservation and the reduction of CO2 emissions.

The statements indicate on the reverse side the amount of CO2 emissions per unit of electricity, gas, kerosene, and gasoline, so that customers can be aware of the CO2 emissions for each energy source and the total for each household every month. The company web site incorporates new services in its "CO2 Diet in Daily Life" page, which gives information on ways to reduce CO2 emissions at home. The web pages include "Household CO2 Accounts," to enable users to automatically calculate their CO2 emissions every month, an "Eco Life Essence" section, to recommend easy-to-do measures for CO2 reduction in daily life, and "Eco Life Planning," which indicates in figures the effects of the customers' efforts to reduce emissions.

Japan has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and it is essential that each household and each citizen actively makes efforts to reduce emissions in order to meet the country's target of reducing greenhouse gases by 6 percent, as set out in the Protocol. TEPCO hopes to bolster such efforts by households, an area that needs specific measures for the reduction of CO2 emissions, by providing information on their statements and web site.



Posted: 2002/11/30 04:11:05 PM
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