Deregulation of electric industries and creation of competitive power markets has been a main stream throughout the world aiming at reduction of the electricity price, diversity of customer’s choices and services and promotion of new business keeping supply reliability. However, the deregulation of electric industries, the consequent open access to transmission networks and harsh competitions in power markets forced the power system developers and operators to face with various new problems. In front runners that introduced the deregulation of electric industries swiftly such as United States, Europe and others, a large variety of negative matters happed in power systems and markets, that is energy crisis in California (1999), price manipulation of markets (2000), the historical largest scale blackouts (2003) transmission congestion, deterioration of supply reliability, insufficient adequacy of generations and transmission lines and recent up-keeping of electricity prices.

Under such circumstances surrounding competitive power markets, practical use of renewable and distributed energy generation offers an attractive alternative for power supply and is a match for expansion and constructions of nuclear power plants to solve the critical matters. Their advantages are a short construction cycle, being less of a burden to the existing transmission network, as it can be located near to the demand, and contributing to prevention of global warming through clean combustion using novel energy technologies such as natural gas co-generation, natural gas micro turbines, or fuel cells. Distributed generations using renewable energy resources such as wind and solar energy are also attracting attention.

The following issues will be addressed;
1、New Issues in Deregulated Power Systems and Markets in the world
2、Institutional Reform of Power Systems and Markets in Japan
3、Countermeasures to Global Warming and its Prospects
4、Practical Use of Sustainable and Distributed Energy Generation
5、The Role of Large-scale Energy Storage for CO2 Reduction.

主持人：康重庆

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