IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-05506299.html

Impact of the feed-in-tariff exemption on energy consumption in Japanese industrial plants

Author

Listed:
  • Aline Mortha

    (Dokkyo University)

  • Naonari Yajima

    (Seijo University)

  • Toshi Arimura

    (Waseda University [Tokyo])

Abstract

To promote renewable energy deployment, Japan introduced a feed-in tariff policy in 2012, financed through a surcharge on electricity prices for consumers. The Japanese government also offered a discount system for electricity-intensive industrial plants, exempting them from paying full surcharges. Using monthly plant-level data from 2005 to 2018, this study evaluated the exemption system's impact on electricity and fossil fuel consumption for plants in the iron and steel, chemical products, and pulp and paper sectors. Our results show that the exempted iron and steel plants increased electricity purchase and consumption by 1.06% and 1.04%, respectively. The introduction of electricity efficiency as a new requirement for exemption applications after 2017 did not curb the rebound, as iron, steel, and pulp and paper plants increased their electricity consumption by 1.49% and 0.69%, respectively, after the reform. This result may call for the reform of the exemption system, with the possibility of a lower discount rate or tighter requirements for electricity efficiency.
(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Suggested Citation

  • Aline Mortha & Naonari Yajima & Toshi Arimura, 2024. "Impact of the feed-in-tariff exemption on energy consumption in Japanese industrial plants," Post-Print hal-05506299, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05506299
    DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2024.101241
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Sobiech, Anna L. & Uchida, Hirofumi, 2025. "Characteristics of green loan users and the green policy mix," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    3. Mortha, Aline & Arimura, Toshi H., 2024. "Purchase or generate? An analysis of inter-fuel substitution and electricity generation in Japanese manufacturing plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05506299. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.