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Gov't reveals deregulation, reform steps to boost renewable energy

2016-05-08

     The government revealed Thursday about 100 sets of reform and deregulation measures for Japan's energy industry with the aim of spreading renewable energy.
     The steps include shortening the period required to assess the effects of building wind power generation facilities on the environment, as well as deregulation in the process of setting up small hydroelectric generation in fiscal 2012.
     The Cabinet is expected to approve the reform and deregulation measures in the near future and relevant ministries will begin in earnest to revise rules concerning such electricity generation.
     Among the steps are making solar power stations exempt from regulations under the factory location act. The rule change would ease the obligation on the solar power plants' operators to use the plant site for green spaces and is aimed at encouraging the construction of large-scale solar power plants.
     The government also allowed geothermal power generation development in national parks for those who burrow underground from areas outside the parks. Burrowing underground vertically in some regulated areas to utilize geothermal power was also approved.
     To encourage competition in the electricity industry, in which companies are largely granted monopoly status in their service regions, the government also decided to have the Japan Fair Trade Commission, the competition policy watchdog, analyze market conditions in fiscal 2012.

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