Tetsunari Iida

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Iida at a conference of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin, 2011

Tetsunari Iida ( Japanese 飯 田 哲 也 , Iida Tetsunari ; born January 8, 1959 in Tokuyama (today: Shūnan ), Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese nuclear scientist , expert on renewable energies , political advisor and politician.

Iida heads the non-profit Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP, English for "Institute for Sustainable Energy Policy") in Chūō , Tokyo , and is part of the management of the World Bioenergy Association and the REN21 - Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, as well as the scientific Advisory board of the World Wind Energy Association and the International Green Cross .

In Japan, Iida is considered one of the opinion leaders in the field of renewable energy. He has been advising the Japanese government on climate change issues since 2001 and organized an initiative for renewable energies in the Japanese parliament , which led to a subsidy law. He appeared in various energy policy conferences around the world.

biography

Iida is from Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduated from Kyoto University with a Masters in Nuclear Science in 1983 . He worked briefly for Kobe Steel and from there moved to the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry to focus on nuclear research. From 1996 to 1998 he was visiting researcher at Lund University in Sweden ; then he did his doctorate at the University of Tokyo .

From 1992 to 2006, he was director of energy and environmental studies at the Japan Research Institute , a think tank and advisory firm of the Mitsui Financial Group ; In 2000 he founded the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies .

Iida has served on climate change and energy policy committees in Nagano and Fukushima prefectures . In 2001, he was appointed to the Environment Committee of the Tokyo Prefectural Administration and the Climate Change Committee of the Japanese Environment Ministry . In the following years he was also a member of the committees for energy policy and for renewable energies of the Ministry of Economy and Industry . Since 2009 he has been part of the Cabinet Office's climate change working group .

Iida teaches renewable energy policy at the University of Tokyo and has published several books on the subject.

politics

The Japan Times portrayed Tetsunari Iida as a member of the Japanese citizens' movement for the use of renewable energies. Iida describes himself as an activist and sees his goal in a “democratization of Japanese energy policy” along the lines of the northern European countries. He criticized the entanglement of interests between the energy industry, nuclear power plant manufacturers, authorities and politicians in Japan, for which he co-coined the term "Nuclear Village", and thus shares the critical attitude of Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster , Iida, who as an employee of Kobe Steel had helped develop the nuclear waste storage containers used at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant , reiterated his call for Japan to phase out nuclear power . Nuclear power plants that have already failed can be replaced in the short term with full use of existing thermal power plants, and the remaining ones in the long term with renewable energies, especially wind and solar energy . He cited Germany as an example of an exemplary energy policy.

In an interview published by the University of the United Nations , he spoke of the tabooing of new forms of energy, which was based on the broad approval of the Japanese population for nuclear energy and which had been loosened by the Fukushima disaster. He advocated breaking the grid monopoly of large energy companies such as Tepco and thereby facilitating the feed-in of electricity from renewable energies.

In the gubernatorial election in Yamaguchi 2012 , Iida applied to succeed Sekinari Nii , but was subject to Shigetaro Yamamoto .

In November 2012 he participated in the founding of the short-lived Nippon Mirai no Tō by Yukiko Kada , in which he was initially sole deputy chairman ( daihyō daikō ). In the general election in 2012 Iida ran in the 1st constituency of Yamaguchi against the liberal-democratic incumbent Masahiko Kōmura and was clearly defeated with 18% of the vote against 66% for Kōmura.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mr. (Dr.) Tetsunari Iida. (PDF; 107 kB) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India, 2010, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 (English).
  2. ^ A b Anti-Nuke Who's Who: Tetsunari Iida: democratizing Japan's energy policy. CNIC / Japan Times, archived from the original on June 28, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 (English).
  3. ↑ 飯 田 哲 也 メ ッ セ ー ジ . 環境 エ ネ ル ギ ー 政策 研究所 (Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies), archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; Retrieved June 28, 2011 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ a b Renewable's time is now, expert says. The Japan Times, May 14, 2011, archived from the original on June 28, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 (English).
  5. ↑ Norimitsu Onishi and Martin Fackler: In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust ( Memento June 24, 2011 on WebCite ). New York Times , June 12, 2011 (English).
  6. ^ IAEA international fact finding expert mission of the nuclear accident following the great east japan earthquake and tsunami. (PDF; 37 kB) International Atomic Energy Agency, June 1, 2011, archived from the original on June 4, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 (English): "Nuclear regulatory systems ... should ensure that regulatory independence and clarity of roles are preserved in all circumstances."
  7. ^ A b Tetsunari Iida on the renewable future of Japan. (Video) In: Youtube . United Nations University, May 9, 2011, accessed June 28, 2011 (Japanese, with, English, subtitled).
  8. ↑ Global snap poll on earthquake in Japan and its impact on views about nuclear energy. (PDF; 509 kB) WIN-Gallup International , April 19, 2011, archived from the original on April 21, 2011 ; accessed on April 21, 2011 (English).
  9. ↑ Eric Johnston: For women, against reactors. Shiga's Kada readies party; Ozawa joins. In: The Japan Times . November 28, 2012, accessed November 28, 2012 .
  10. ↑ 選 挙> 衆院 選> 総 選 挙 2012> 開票 結果> 小 選 挙 区 山口 . In: Yomiuri Shimbun . December 16, 2012, accessed January 13, 2014 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Iida, Tetsunari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 飯 田 哲 也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese nuclear scientist, renewable energy expert, policy advisor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokuyama (today: Shūnan ), Yamaguchi Prefecture