Tetsunari Iida

Tetsunari Iida (Japanese饭 田 哲 也, Iida Tetsunari; born January 8, 1959 in Tokuyama (now Shunan ), Yamaguchi Prefecture) is a Japanese nuclear scientists, an expert in renewable energy, policy advisors and politicians.

Iida heads the nonprofit Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Chūō, Tokyo, and belongs to the management of the World Bioenergy Association and the REN21 ( IESP, English for " institute for sustainable energy policy .") - 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 one of the key opinion leaders in the field of renewable energies. He advises since 2001, the Japanese government on climate change issues and organized a renewable energy initiative in the Japanese parliament, which led to a promotion law. Worldwide he appeared in several conferences on the subject of energy policy.

Biography

Iida comes from Yamaguchi Prefecture and graduated in 1983, graduated as a master in nuclear science at the University of Kyoto. He worked briefly for Kobe Steel and moved from there to the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, to pursue nuclear research. From 1996 to 1998 he was a visiting researcher at Lund University in Sweden; earned a Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo.

From 1992 to 2006 he was Vice President for Energy and Environmental Studies at the Japan Research Institute, a think tank and consulting firm Mitsui Financial Group; In 2000 he founded the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies.

Iida was a member of committees for climate change and energy policies of the prefectures of Nagano and Fukushima. He was appointed to the environmental committee of the prefectural government of Tokyo and in the Climate Change Committee of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment 2001. In the following years he was also a member of the Committee for Energy Policy and Renewable Energy of the Economic and Industry Ministry. Since 2009 he is part of the Working Group on Climate Change of the Cabinet Office.

Iida teaches Renewable Energy Policy at the University of Tokyo and published several books on this topic.

Policy

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 interests entanglements between the energy industry, nuclear power plant manufacturers, authorities and politicians in Japan, for which he helped to shape the concept of ' 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 affirmed Iida, who had helped to develop as an employee of the Kobe Steel used in the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi nuclear waste storage containers, its call for a nuclear phase-out in Japan. Already failed nuclear power plants were replaced shortly by a full utilization of existing thermal power plants, and other long-term renewable energy, especially wind and solar energy. He cited Germany as an example of good energy policy.

In an article published by the United Nations University interview, he spoke of a taboo new forms of energy, which was based on the general consent of the Japanese population to nuclear energy and had loosened by the Fukushima disaster. He pleaded to smash the network monopolies of large energy companies such as Tepco, thereby facilitating the supply of electricity from renewable energy sources.

In the gubernatorial election in 2012, Yamaguchi Iida applied to the succession of Sekinari Nii, but lost Shigetarō Yamamoto.

In November 2012, he participated in the establishment of the short-lived Nippon Mirai no Tō of Yukiko Kada, in which he was initially the sole Deputy Chairman ( Daihyō Daiko ). In the general election in 2012 Iida candidate in the 1st constituency Yamaguchi against the liberal Democratic incumbent Masahiko Komura and was defeated, with 18% of the vote against 66 % for Komura.