JAPAN UNLEASHES POWER LIBERALISATION – BUT CONSUMERS YET TO ABANDON MAJOR PLAYERS
December 1st, 2016
OPPORTUNITIES may abound for suppliers in Japan’s newly liberalised household electricity market, but for the time being, a handful of regional utility giants still retain the lion’s share of sales.
Analysts had predicted the Japanese government’s granting of consumer choice over the source of their energy purchases would stimulate growth in innovative and renewable energy, and undermine sales in power generated from fossil fuels and nuclear. But thus far, Japanese consumers have been conservative and stuck with the energy devils they know, even if they ...
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