Review Article

Japan’s 2014 Strategic Energy Plan: A Planned Energy System Transition

Table 1

METI budget allocations (billions of yen).

ItemFY2013FY2014FY2015FY2016 (requested)

General account329.9337.0338.3395.3
Energy resources special account783.3872.7796.5975.7
Subtotal1113.11209.71134.71371.0
Supplementary budget for energy measures93.0351.5382.6N/A
Grand total1206.11561.21517.3N/A
Energy-related only (a + b)876.31224.21179.1N/A
Change in energy-related budget over previous yearN/A39.6%−3.7%N/A
Share of energy-related budget to total budget72.7%78.4%77.7%N/A

Source: METI (2016).