Electric Power

• Efforts will be made to reduce in 2010 the CO₂ emission per unit of output in the electric power industry as a whole by about 20% as compared to the 1990 actual. As a result, although the electric power output in 2010 is expected to increase 1.5 times over 1990, the amount of CO₂ emission will be kept down to an increase of about 1.2 times.

Measures

• Promotion of the best mix of electricity sources centering on atomic energy power generation.
• Promotion of efficient use of energy.
• Promotion of adoption and wide dissemination of new energy.
• Promotion of technological development for recovery, disposal and stabilization relating to CO₂.
• Support for energy-saving in the use of electricity, etc.

• Efforts will be made to expand to by about 4 million tons the recycling of coal ash by the electric power industry as whole in 2010. (Figure in 1990 was 1.37 million tons.)

Measures

• Expansion of the use of coal ash as cement raw material, and for mixing with concrete.
• Vigorous development and publicizing of technology and methods for use in various ways.

• Full consideration will be given to the environment when starting operations overseas in the future.
• Accepting trainees from overseas, dispatching technical experts overseas and training technicians will be undertaken for developing countries.