Study on Sustainable Town Planning by Renewable Energy Projects in Japanese Local Small-scale autonomy

Case of Kuzumaki Town , Iwate Pref.

Abstract

The use of renewable energy is receiving increasing attention to deal with the recent energy problems or environmental problems. Since the renewable energy is the individual dispersed style energy in region , original tackling is possible. Promoting use of renewable energy can be valid for regional activation. In recently , many cases are reported that utilizing renewable energy a town is vitalized. The representative case is Kuzumaki-town , Iwate Pref. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what effect the renewable energy projects had on sustainable town planning.