Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Japan:

Japan's Feed-in-Tariff System for Clean Energy Mired in Regulations (Asahi Shimbun)

The nuclear disaster in Japan two years ago ignited a push to develop a new and clean energy industry, but those efforts are being stymied by a raft of regulations.

Geothermal power is no exception in terms of having to overcome mounting hurdles despite Japan's great potential for this sort of clean energy.

Developers face a set of complex procedures to obtain a permit when plans are made to build a geothermal power plant in a natural park or hot spring resort.

As a result, there was no private investment in geothermal power in Japan during fiscal 2012.

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