Significance and challenges of revitalizing abandoned small hydropower facilities,

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  • Nakao Kyoko
    WASEDA University Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering
  • Nozu Takashi
    WASEDA University Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering

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  • 遺構を再生する小水力発電事業の意義と課題
  • As an inherited local story
  • 受け継がれる地域の物語として

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<p>Small-scale hydropower in rural area is a highly local-based energy source. In Japan, it was introduced in the Meiji era and lit up people's lives. But after several decades, many facilities were abandoned. 2011's accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Station and the FIT triggered projects to rediscover these facilities and revitalize them in various regions.This study focuses on small hydropower revitalization projects that can be viewed in the context of local history, and clarifies their significance and challenges by conducting field surveys of three cases and interviewing the project owners and key local people.</p>

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