Abstract
Amid the demand for the promotion of countermeasures against global warming as a result of its more severity, further strengthening of energy measures taken by local governments is expected. This study focuses on such energy measures and examines “policy matrix” which grasps their problems and challenges. This idea is to establish three aspects of the roles played by local governments, that is, consumer, business entity and policy subject as well as three fields of measures, demand side, supply side and both sides of demand/supply, which are the targets of regional countermeasures, in order to understand the energy measures systematically.
Next, “a checklist of energy measures” based on the policy matrix is devised for the purpose of analyzing the system of local governments' administration of energy and those systematized items are stated clearly. Then, a case study is conducted targeting two local governments near big cities (Hino City and Hirakata City) to test the applicability of the checklist approach and extract the agendas of their measures. The result of the study clarifies the usefulness of the checklist approach and distills the future agendas to be considered for the local governments' administration of energy.
