Tokyo is looking to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from their 2000 levels. The move is being made to counter the recent trend of rising emissions from households. If the reform effort goes smoothly in the capital, the central government may follow in Tokyo’s footsteps.
“We will be nurturing a movement so that power will be generated on rooftops as naturally as houses have roofs,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said at a Sept. Similar frameworks have already been put in place in Kyoto and Gunma prefectures, but they do not cover detached houses. Still, the change would make Tokyo the first place in Japan to require new homes to come with solar panels installed. 9 announcement by the Tokyo metropolitan government.īut it will not come with penalties to enforce the new requirements. Tokyo will oblige homebuilders to outfit their newly built homes and buildings with solar panels starting in April 2025.Ī legislative measure to introduce quotas for solar panel installations will be submitted to the metropolitan assembly in December this year, according to a Sept.
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