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Yoshida Lab
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The lab approaches energy and environmental issues from the perspectives of engineering, economics, and behavioral science.
AboutAbout the lab
Bringing environmental technologies to society through interdisciplinary research
The Yoshida Lab takes a broad view of energy and environmental issues and conducts research for the sustainable development of humanity.
Its topics range from improving everyday environments to supporting policy decision-making, all of them useful for solving global environmental problems.
Using methods from engineering, economics, and behavioral science, the lab evaluates technologies that benefit the environment and their introduction into society.
It is particularly strong in cross-disciplinary research that keeps the efficient use of energy in mind.
Key terms
- Agrivoltaics
- An approach in which solar panels are installed above farmland so that agriculture and solar power generation are carried out at the same time
- Output curtailment
- A measure that temporarily reduces the output of solar and other power generation when there is likely to be a surplus of electricity
- Opinion dynamics
- A theory that deals with how people's opinions change over time as they influence one another
NewsLab news
A researcher received the Excellent Paper Presentation Award at the National Convention of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
A researcher's doctoral dissertation received the Dean's Award of the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
A doctoral student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Ecological Engineering
A doctoral student received the Chairman's Award at the Environmental Information Science Research Presentation Conference
The international conference IPAS 2025 was held at the University of Tokyo
ResearchResearch themes
The lab examines the current state of energy systems and environmental problems from many angles and conducts research for the sustainable development of humanity. With climate change countermeasures and the social implementation of policies and institutions in mind, it works on topics such as evaluating technologies that contribute to the environment.
*Illustrative imageSustainable Supply of Food and Energy
This research studies agrivoltaics, which combines agriculture with solar power generation. Using simulations, it analyzes how fluctuations in power output affect the power grid and how much output curtailment occurs, and applies the findings to policy and equipment design.
*Illustrative imageOptimization of Power Systems
For renewable energy, which is strongly affected by the weather, the lab conducts integrated analysis that combines power grid operation with the optimization of equipment configurations such as storage batteries, using real data from electric power companies.
*Illustrative imageDiffusion Dynamics of Environmental Technologies
The lab analyzes how consumers' evaluations of a technology change over time and how this affects its diffusion, using theories such as opinion dynamics, and explores effective policies for promoting diffusion.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yoshida Lab consist of faculty, visiting researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, technical specialists, project specialists, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorYoshikuni Yoshida
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Power County Wind Farm 002” ENERGY.GOV / Public domain (cropped)
- Sustainable Supply of Food and Energy: “Agrivoltaics pilot plant at Heggelbach Farm in Germany 4” Tobi Kellner / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Optimization of Power Systems: “Desert Sunlight Battery Energy Storage System ( )” blmcalifornia / Public domain (cropped)
- Diffusion Dynamics of Environmental Technologies: “Rooftop Solar panels on homes in Mehsana, Gujarat, India” Nizil Shah / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Long Lab): “Blue Marble Eastern Hemisphere” NASA（Reto Stöckli） / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Murakami Lab): “Bingham Canyon Mine (2) - Salt Lake County, Utah - May 11, 2012” David Ratledge / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Fujii-Komiyama Lab): “Liverpool Transmission Substation, New South Wales 04” Chris.sherlock2 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Energy and Environment Lab): “Mud tank and shakers during groundwater well drilling” Nicole Fenton, USGS / Public domain (cropped)
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