POWER GENERATION DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS IN JAPAN BEFORE 2030: FUKUSHIMA EFFECT
The paper considers the long-term prospects of developing the structure of generating plants in Japanese electric power industry. Having specified the difficulties faced by the Japanese electric power industry after the disaster at “Fukushima-1” nuclear power plant, it describes the present state of the industry. The main emphasis falls on the analysis of changes in generation structure to 2030 within three scenarios, each of which is conditional on a certain vision of industry development.