Yukio Edano, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, is advocating broad competitive reforms of his nation’s electricity sector in response to looming power shortages. Japan must strip its regional electric utilities of monopoly protections as part of reforms responding to last year’s nuclear crisis, Edano told the Financial Times.
“The important thing is to bring into play appropriate competition in the electricity sector and to allow consumers – the users – to have a choice,” Edano told FT. “That is a major goal.”