@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00001014,
 author = {Shiba, Kazuhiko and Fujishiro, Toru},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 issue = {1},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {With the commitment to contribute to achieving a low-carbon society, The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc (TEPCO) has identified energy and environment strategies and started to take actions both from the supply side and the demand side of electricity. Seen from the supply side, nuclear power generation is a key to realizing a low-carbon society. The power generation with a nuclear power unit corresponds to the CO2 reduction of 5 million tons per year. 1% increase in facility utilization rate at TEPCO’s nuclear power stations would reduce yearly CO2 emissions by approx. a million tons. Thus, it is particularly important for TEPCO to steadily promote planned nuclear power development as well as to safely improve the capacity factor of nuclear power generation. Meanwhile, TEPCO has introduced a 1,500 °C combined-cycle power generation system which provides one of the world’s highest thermal efficiency level of 59%. 1% improvement in TEPCO’s average thermal power efficiency leads to the reduction of annual CO2 emission by 1.8 million tons. Furthermore, TEPCO has made efforts to expand application of renewable energy sources. TEPCO has announced the development of megawatt-solar power plants by 2011, totaling 30MW in supply capacity. These solar power plants will contribute to reduce CO2 emission by 14 thousand tons per year. Regarding the demand-side, if all air conditioners and water heaters in the consumer sector and industrial sector are replaced with those powered by heat pumps, an estimated approx. 130 million tons of yearly CO2 emissions could be reduced in Japan. TEPCO successfully commercialized “Eco Cute”, the world’s first residential natural refrigerant heat-pump water heater. Owing to the development of advanced heat pump technologies, the scope of application for electric appliances is expanding to diverse fields. In the transportation sector, TEPCO is working in partnership with automobile manufacturers in the development of electric vehicles and aims to introduce up to around 3,000 electric vehicles in the future. As the Japan’s largest electric power utility, TEPCO aims to contribute to achieving a low-carbon society with its energy and environment strategies by integrating its initiatives for the production of low-CO2 electricity and for the efficient utilization of electricity.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {Tepco’s Energay and Environmental Strategies Toward a Low- Carbon Society},
 volume = {6},
 year = {2010}
}