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Appendix 1. List of coal-fired facilities with biomass co-firing approved for FIT (Feed-in Tariff)*USC= ultra-supercritical, SC= supercritical, Sub-C= subcritical and refer to the temperature/pressure theplants are operated at indicating plant efficiency. The 35 power plants designated as “inefficient” (Sub-C orSC) are shown in red.

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Appendix 2. Imported Wood Pellets from 2012 to 2022

Created by FoE Japan, based on the Trade Statistics of Japan

Imports of wood pellets increased 61-fold from 71,981 tons in 2012 to 4,407,406 tons in 2022, when theFIT subsidy system was introduced. In 2022, Japan mainly imported pellets from Vietnam with 2,393,713
tons, Canada with 1,359,405 tons, and the United States with 302,973 tons.
Source: The Ministry of Finance, Trade Statistics of Japan, General Trade Statistics, Commodity byCountry (HS code 440131000)

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Appendix 3. Imports vs domestic production of wood pellets from 2012 to 2021

Created by FoE Japan, based on the Trade Statistics and the Survey of Production Statistics on Special Forest Products

Imports of wood pellets in 2021 totaled 3,116,767 tons, while domestic production totaled 155,836 tons.
Domestic production of wood pellets has been showing an upward trend since 2012, when the FIT scheme
was implemented, and increased nearly 60,000 tons in the nine years to 2021 from 98,184 tons. Imports,on the other hand, have increased about 43-fold from 71,981 tons in 2012. Therefore, the self-efficiency
ratio of wood pellets, which was 57.7% in 2012, has dropped to 4.8% in 2021.

Note: The above figure compares the amount of wood pellets imported to that produced domestically, sodoes not indicate the self-efficiency ratio for all woody biomass fuels. The primary woody biomass fuelproduced in Japan is wood chips, and according to the ʻWood Statistics Surveyʼ by the Ministry ofAgriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), the amount of wood chips produced in Japan in 2021 was
6,070,000 tons.
On the other hand, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japanʼs ʻSurvey onWoody Biomass Energy Use Trends,ʼ in 2021 10,693,197 tons of wood chips and 1,809,690 tons of wood3

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Appendicespellets were among the woody biomass used for energy (a combination of boilers and power plants).
This is one of the problems that there is no centralized system to provide specific information regarding
fuels used for biomass power generation.

Sources:•Imports of wood pellets: The Ministry of Finance, Trade Statistics of Japan, General Trade
Statistics, Commodity by Country (HS Code 440131000)•Domestic production of wood pellets, The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF),Survey of Production Statistics on Special Forest Products, Wood Granular Fuel•

Domestic production of wood chips: MAFF, Wood Statistics Survey, Wood Industry Trend ‒WoodChips•Woody biomass used for energy: MAFF, Survey on Woody Biomass Energy Use Trends, Volumeof Woody Biomass Used4