JERA is putting Japan's decarbonization goals at risk

Utility's commitment to keeping fossil-fuel plants running will be costly

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Sodegaura Thermal Power Station in Chiba prefecture, Japan: JERA's domestic thermal power segment has typically been the most profitable part of its business. (Photo by Mizuho Miyazaki)

Christopher Doleman is a specialist gas researcher with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a nonprofit energy research group based in Lakewood, Ohio.

At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai last month, Japan announced that it would end the construction of coal plants without systems to capture their carbon emissions. This builds on Tokyo's earlier move to join a Group of Seven commitment to largely decarbonize its power sector by 2035.

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