January 26th, 2017
RITE Symposium

Panel discussion“Innovation”

Mayumi Matsumoto
Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo,
The Environment and Energy Department, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

1Global energy demand has been grown rapidly
Global Energy consumption (by region , primary energy)OECD energy consumption decorated form 70.8 % in 1965 to 42.5% in 2014.

Mtoe

Asia Pacific
AfricaMiddle East
Now-defunct Soviet Union
RussiaEuropeMiddle East
North America

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Ref：METI（BP：Statistical review of world energy 2015

Significant “efficiency improvement and low carbonization”
are required in energy demand and supply sides
 Industrial sectors must evolve improvement in

manufacturing process and updating their
manufacturing facilities.

e.g. Low-carbon steel-making, energy-saving cementproduction, CO2-EOR)

Investment to clean coal technology in energy sector
e.g. CCS, high efficiency coal-fired power (A-USC, IGCC, IGFC)

Fuel switch (low carbon energy, Hydrogen etc.)
Promotion of next-generation vehicles, zero emission
vehicles(ZEV)
Energy management with ICT including energystorage3

“Mission Innovation”
International Initiative has been Jointly launched in theopening day of COP21, November 30th ,2015. Thecountries participating in the new initiative include japan,US. France, UK and Bill Gates from private sector.
20 countries announced to double its governmental orstate-directed clean energy research and development
investment over five years.

4Global investment in clean energy 2004-2015

5Ref：Bloomberg New Energy Finace

D. Trump’s An “America First” Energy Plan
Core of energy policy: boosting domestic energy productionand ensuring energy self-sufficiency
Ensuring energy self-sufficiency, creating 500,000 jobs/year, increasing
wages by more than $30 billion, and reducing price of energy
Unleash America’s $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas
reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves.
Become, and stay, totally independent of any need to import energy
from the OPEC cartel or any nations hostile to our interests.
Open onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands
Encourage the use of natural gas and other American energy resourcesthat will both reduce emissions but also reduce the price of energy andincrease our economic output.
6Trump likes a ‘good deal’, so he should likemy clean energy ideas, Bill Gates says
US media reported on December 13ird, 2016 that BillGates called President Donald Trump about Energy sector.
Bill Gates said , “ It is good time to take leadership for US
on energy and climate change “ ,“There is the opportunity
for innovation and the revenue from R&D” “Low carbon
energy as well as Shale gas help our economy “Ref：CNBC

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Trump meets Silicon Valley executives
Trump meets Silicon Valley executives at the Trump Tower, December 14th ,2016

Amazon Co-Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said, “ very productive” andshared the view that the administration should make innovation oneof the key pillars , which would create a huge number of jobs acrossthe community, in all sectors, not just tech - agriculture ,infrastructure, and manufacturing – everywhere “Oracle CEO Safra Catz said that lower corporate tax rate and antiregulatory policies will boost competiveness in Silicon valley.

8Picture: REUTERSSmart Grid
Grid system integrates electricity , gas, heat, water,building ,home appliance , light , power wall,automobile ,and logistics. Power, IT, software, telecom,
motor vehicle, and security industries enter this market.
In US, Smart Grid is under infrastructure building , but
analytical ability of data is already improved dramaticallythrough Smart meter and Big Data.
Factory

NuclearThermalResident

Hydro
Smart GridPV

Town/OfficeEco-carPicture：JEITA

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Tesla’s 80MWh Battery stabilize power grid in CA
Tesla released a new entry into stationary power battery
market in April 2015: at-home battery “ Powerwall” andlarger ”Powerpack” (210 kWh).
Tesla announced that it has been selected by Southern
California Edison to build Powerpack (20 MW/80 MWh)at the utility’s Mira Loma substation. The battery
installation would be able to provide enough power for
2,500 homes daily or 1,000 Tesla cars.
Tesla and partner, Panasonic have launched
construction of Nevada-based giant battery plant, “Tesla
Gigafactory”.
10Image of Powerpack energy storage
Ref：Tesla

Tesla Powerpack11

New business model under Japan power deregulation, post FIT

independent introduction from FIT Smart community (dispersion type power source, local
production for local consumption, regionally thermal use)
Acceleration of Eco-town based on ZEH and new businessfor Zero energy building (ZEB)New business model under power deregulation
Virtual power plantResource aggregation business

12Energy management through ICT technology
Technical aspect: Energy storage, advanced inverter, andenergy management through AI and big data arenecessary to stabilize voltage.
Use of IoT in a variety of power facilities, analytic
technology of big data, 24hrs remote monitoring,development of high added value services like sensors.
Size of energy storage facility (battery etc.) grows. New
business models related to storage of distributed energy
are expected grow from now on.
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Contribution to Innovation
Japan must contribute to global emission reductions
through energy-saving technologies transfer todeveloping countries in the short term.
Japan also have to make best efforts to drive innovativetechnology development that facilitates theaccomplishment of reducing global GHG emissions by halfby 2050 in the long term.

14Ref：NASA