Trends in Electricity Conservation Measures: Focusing on Responses by Industry Groups and Companies  

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Nishimura, Itaru

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 9 no. 4 (2012), page 22-41.
Topik: Electricity; Earthquake; Electricity Conservation Measures
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As well as the direct damage resulting from the earthquake itself, electricity supply and demand has become a major problem due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Accordingly, this paper discusses trends in electricity conservation measures in 2011 and the issues that arose as a result. Broadly speaking, there are two types of characteristics in companies electricity conservation measures. Firstly, overall trends concerning specific electricity conservation measures include a reduction in overtime, moving work start and finish times and total hours forward, changing the timing or length of summer holiday periods, and altering the prescribed days off. Secondly, differences were seen in the measures implemented, according to the characteristics of the business establishment in question. While there is a tendency for head offices to seek to conserve electricity by shortening total working hours, one can see a trend among factories and warehouses toward trying to promote electricity conservation by shifting the operating times, while maintaining the current working hours. Problems that arose as a result of electricity conservation measures include the fact that they imposed a cost burden on companies. More specifically, these included increases in costs arising from the installation of private power generation equipment and co-generation to conserve electricity, inventory management costs, and labor costs resulting from weekend and night-time shifts. Having said that, the electricity conservation carried out in FY2011 did not result solely in a cost burden being imposed on companies. Electricity conservation measures also had positive effects, in terms of making corporate management more efficient and diversifying individuals’ ways of working.

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