Keidanren to Promote Voluntary Electricity Peak-Cut Action Plan for 2011 Summer

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) announced on April 11, 2011, its plan to encourage businesses to draw up voluntary action plans to reduce peak power demand in an effort to overcome the shortage of power supply capacity expected during the summer of 2011 -- the result of the accident at Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant in the aftermath of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of March 2011. The plan is an effort by the business world to respond to the decisions of the government's Electricity Supply-Demand Emergency Response Headquarters in its Outline of Electricity Supply-Demand Measures in Summer Time.

In the outline, the following requests are made; in the service areas of Tokyo and Tohoku Power Companies service area, large users (contract electricity: 500 kilowatts or more) should reduce the maximum electricity use from 10 a.m. through 9 p.m. on weekdays from July through September 2011 by 25 percent from the previous year's level, while small users (less than 500 kilowatts) should aim to reduce usage by 20 percent, and households and individuals by 15 to 20 percent.

With these requests in mind, Keidanren plans to urge its member companies and organizations to formulate voluntary action plans with the following items as main pillars: first, for large users, to reduce the maximum electricity use in an appropriate unit that can make the effort, such as a business establishment or a company; second, to encourage related small customers to formulate, declare and implement their own power saving plans, and support their efforts; third, to encourage employees and customers to save electricity; and fourth, to increase supplies of electricity to power companies by making use of their own power generation facilities.

Keidanren also plans to disclose information and provide opportunities to exchange information among member companies and organizations in order to promote the drawing up of action plans.

More Japanese Industries Setting Voluntary Targets to Reduce CO2 Emissions (Related JFS article)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/027130.html

Posted: 2011/07/26 06:00:15 AM