Tetsunari Iida, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tetsunari Iida

Renewable energy proponant

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1959

Place of Birth: Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Profession: politician, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About Tetsunari Iida

  • Tetsunari Iida (?? ??, Iida Tetsunari; born 1959, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) is director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Japan.
  • Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, he is calling for a decrease in Japan's reliance on nuclear power and an increase in renewable energy use.Iida started his career as a nuclear engineer, but he quit in 1992, and went to study renewable energy in Sweden.
  • In September 2011, Iida launched the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, which is backed by ¥1 billion (US$13 million) from Japan's richest man, Masayoshi Son.
  • Solar power in Japan has been expanding since the late 1990s.
  • The country is a leading manufacturer of photovoltaics (PV) and a large installer of domestic PV systems with most of them grid connected.

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