Japanese election paves way for new energy strategy
Next government faces the difficult task of balancing decarbonisation ambitions with energy security realities
Japan heads to the polls this week knowing that whoever wins will soon have to turn their attention to the hotly anticipated Seventh Strategic Energy Plan (SEP). The latest iteration will be presented to the Cabinet in early 2025 and sets out a policy roadmap to 2035 and 2040. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) started discussions for the next SEP in mid-May. The current version was announced in 2021, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and only laid out a pathway to 2030. The immediate question will be who leads the government come early 2025. Current prime minister, and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Shigeru Ishiba called a snap election in late
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