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Energy Economics Lab
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A lab that considers sustainable energy supply and demand from both technological and social perspectives.
AboutAbout the lab
Envisioning the energy future through technology and society.
The Energy Economics Lab conducts research in energy economics and energy systems science toward the realization of a sustainable society.
The research rests on two pillars: the technologies that support energy supply and demand, and the society in which people live and work.
Covering scales from households, buildings, and cities to Japan, Asia, and the world, the lab combines perspectives from the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences to explore what new energy supply and demand systems should look like and what institutions are needed to realize them.
The lab belongs to the Graduate School of Energy Science, and students join at the graduate level.
Key terms
- Energy supply and demand system
- A view of the side that produces energy such as electricity and fuel and the side that uses it as a single integrated system
- Carbon pricing
- A policy that puts a price on carbon dioxide emissions to encourage reductions, such as carbon taxes and emissions trading
- Capacity mechanism
- A scheme that pays for the capability of power generation facilities, in order to secure facilities that can supply electricity when needed
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Toward a sustainable society, the lab considers how social and economic systems should be structured, and aims to design the plans and institutions needed to create a desirable social system. To this end, it conducts research in energy economics and energy systems science.
Energy Supply and Demand from Technological and Social Perspectives
With two pillars, the technologies that support energy supply and demand and the society in which people act, the lab examines a wide range of systems from households to the world, and considers what new energy supply and demand systems should look like and what institutions are needed to realize them.
Energy Planning for a Sustainable Society
The lab works on the planning and evaluation of energy supply and demand systems aimed at a sustainable society. Doctoral students who have completed the program studied the transition to a hydrogen society, the relationship between carbon pricing policies and capacity mechanisms, and the energy security of energy-exporting countries.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Energy Economics Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, doctoral students (including working professionals) and master's students, double-degree students, and special research students.As of 2025
- ProfessorMCLELLAN Benjamin
- Associate ProfessorSeiichi Ogata
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