Vol.45 No.4 (Serial No.252) 2019

  • Prefatory Note : Awareness of Energy / Shinji WAKAO
  • Featured Article I : Solar Energy Utilization for Future of Agriculture
    • Purport of special feature / Yusuke TAJIMA
    • Policies to revitalize domestic agriculture and rural areas with renewable energy / Masahiro ASANO
    • Cost reduction of plant factory using solar energy / Takayo OGAWA, Kayo KOIKE, Katsushi FUJII and Satoshi WADA
    • Greenhouses to generate electricity using semitransparent organic photovoltaics / Yasuyuki WATANABE
    • Light energy conversion efficiency in photosynthesis and sustainable agricultural production / Masayuki NOZUE
    • Elucidation of the huge earthquake occurrence mechanism by global warming and creation of fossil fuel alternative market by mass production of sweetpotato-methane / Takahiro SUZUKI
  • Featured Article II : Substitution of fossil resource consuming materials with biomass – aiming for 80% reduction of CO2 emission by the year 2050 –
    • Purpose of this feature / Fujinori HANAWA
    • Changing cities into forests, “W350 Plan” for a sustainable future / Ichiro NAKAJIMA
    • Possibility of CLT / Koichiro NAKASHIMA
    • Prospect of low-carbon society based on cellulose nanofibers / Akira ISOGAI
    • Cellulose nanofibers – an abundant sustainable bioresource in  Japan / Hiroyuki YANO
  • Proposal
    • Current status and future prospects of community power plants / Hideaki TAKEMURA
  • Technical Paper
    • A study of municipal power producer and supplier projects and the ideal business style for local city / Takao ANDO
  • Information of the 9th General Meeting of JSES
    • 2018 activities and financial report / activities and budget plan for 2019 – revision of articles of incorporation
    • Special lecture “recent trends of international standards on solar photovoltaics” / Michio KONDO
    • Special lecture “Renewable energy enables community independence” / Yauemon SATO
  • News from JSES Committee
    • JSES announcement