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Energy Risk Lab
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A lab that supports energy policy decision-making through methods such as gaming.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting consensus-building between energy and society.
The Energy Risk Lab studies the interaction and relationship between engineering systems and society, with the aim of supporting consensus-building and decision-making related to energy and environmental systems.
Using methods such as gaming, agent-based simulation, dynamic optimization models, and decomposition analysis, the lab provides interdisciplinary knowledge that goes beyond the boundaries of academic fields.
The lab's main research topic is "technology choice by humans," and it aims to train people who combine a grounding in engineering with one in the social sciences.
Key terms
- Gaming
- A method that represents real-world systems in the form of a game and examines choices and behavior from the results of humans or AI playing it
- Agent-based simulation
- A method that reproduces on a computer the behavior of individual actors such as businesses and consumers, and examines how it affects the whole system
- Dynamic optimization model
- A model that takes the passage of time into account and finds the best choices mathematically. It is used for long-term scenario analysis
NewsLab news
A paper presented at ISAGA 2024 was accepted for the post-conference proceedings
Kengo Suzuki co-authored a chapter in the academic book "The Creation of Innovation"
Joint research with an energy company began
Kengo Suzuki received the Society Contribution Award from the Japan Society of Energy and Resources
ResearchResearch themes
The lab considers which energy and environmental systems are desirable for society as a whole and what policies are needed to realize them. It also tackles the question of how to share complex policy issues with the people involved.
*Illustrative imageEnergy policy evaluation played by humans and AI
In a liberalized market, non-fossil energy is not necessarily chosen unconditionally, so policy guidance is needed. The lab represents energy systems as games and is developing a new method of evaluating policies in which AI and humans play.
*Illustrative imageSustainable future visions depicted through games
The lab aims to model the reasons why the world is becoming unstable, and to share them, using games as a medium. It designs games in collaboration with experts in engineering, agriculture, education, law, philosophy, and design.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Energy Risk Lab consist of faculty members and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate college.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKengo Suzuki
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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: “Electrical grid and power plants” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Energy policy evaluation played by humans and AI: “De Molen (windmill) and the nuclear power plant cooling tower in Doel, Belgium (DSCF3859)” Trougnouf / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Sustainable future visions depicted through games: “Board game pieces” Mshuang2 / CC0 (cropped)
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