Germany and Japan Carry Out Joint Research for Energy Transition

The German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) is holding its first meeting in Tokyo

  • News 28.09.2016
Start signal for GJETC scientific cooperation
Start signal for GJETC scientific cooperation: Mr. Yota Ono (METI), Prof. Dr. Peter Hennicke (Wuppertal Institut), Prof. Masakazu Toyoda (IEEJ) and Dr. Hans Carl von Werthern (German Ambassador in Japan). Photo: Lisa Eidt

Both highly industrialized countries, Germany and Japan face similar challenges in the development of their energy industries to achieve a resource- and climate-friendly energy supply. In order to meet these challenges, the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) was formed with strong support by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (German Federal Environmental Foundation, DBU), the Stiftung Mercator Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The expert panel focuses on scientific stock and transformation analyses for both countries on systems, technologies and policies of the energy transition. As such it provides an important stimulus for politics and the economy.

On the occasion of the council's first meeting Professor Dr. Peter Hennicke, the German chairman of the GJETC and former president of the Wuppertal institute said: "With the GJETC Japan and Germany launch an unprecedented project of knowledge exchange and joint research on the energy transition. The mutual experience of good examples can enhance motivation and speed up the implementation processes."

On the German side, the Wuppertal Institute and ECOS Consult support the council's work as secretariats; on the Japanese side, the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ) takes over this part.

Find more information in a GJETC press release.


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