Local News

The Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies and Chiba University ranked again this year the nation’s prefectures by the self-sufficiency rate of natural energy and heating supply as of the end of March 2010. For the fourth year in a row, the national leader was Oita Prefecture at 27.7%, which has a large thermal power station. In addition, Kumamoto Prefecture finished at 5th and Kumamoto Prefecture finished at 8th. Also noteworthy was Miyazaki Prefecture, which finished in 16th due to its growing commitment to solar power generation.