電力系統技術の歴史的研究

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This paper studies the history of power systems engineering in Japan, collecting the fact and analyzing them with the Stage Model. The power systems engineering is a kind of software technology which could be identified as the reflection of its society and culture. Its history will be studied with papers and books in the field. The power systems in Japan were composed without much delay from that in Europe and America. Its development in quality is remarkable due to the high economic growth and the needs of high reliability in Japan.
This paper confirms how the "flexibility"; is needed and established for the power systems engineering. The reason is that the power systems are affected seriously by the social and economic circumstances of the region they are located and that the society and economy in the region will be continuously changing. The paper suggests that the analysis of historical facts in power systems in Japan will provide Japanese power systems engineer with the sound objective of their R & D activity that is the study of "flexibility"; from social, economic and historical point of view. In this manner the historical study of engineering will make engineering improved and refreshed so that it faces the new century and that it creates an ever brighter future.