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FY2022 Energy Supply and Demand Report (Revised Report)
April 12, 2024
The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE) has prepared the Revised Report on the FY2022 General Energy Statistics based on a wide range of energy-related statistics. The purpose of the report is to describe Japan’s energy supply and demand situation.
1.Highlights of the revised report
(1) Trends in energy demand
- Final energy consumption decreased by 3.3% year-on-year; of this, consumption decreased by 8.4% in coal, 2.8% in city gas, 2.5% in oil, and 2.3% in electricity.
- The business sector showed a decrease due to a decline in production output in the manufacturing industries. The household sector also showed a decrease due to the warm winter and other factors. The transportation sector alone showed an increase for the second consecutive year due to the recovery in passenger transportation.
- A breakdown for each sector on a year-on-year basis shows that final energy consumption decreased by 6.1% in the business sector (of this, consumption decreased by 6.3% in the manufacturing sector) and 2.3% in the household sector, while it increased by 4.0% in the transportation sector (of this, consumption increased by 7.7% in passenger transportation and decreased by 0.7% in cargo transportation).
- Electricity consumption on a year-on-year basis decreased by 3.0% in the business sector (of this, consumption decreased by 3.3% in the manufacturing sector) and 0.5% in the household sector.
(2) Trends in energy supply
- Domestic primary energy supply decreased by 2.1% year-on-year. The supplies of fossil fuels decreased by 1.9%, while the supply of renewable energy (including hydroelectric power) has increased for ten consecutive years.
- In terms of fossil fuels, oil decreased by 2.1%, coal by 2.0%, and natural gas and city gas by 1.5%. Non-fossil fuels supply decreased by 3.3%, mainly attributable to a decrease by 20.8% in nuclear energy, while there was an increase by 3.4% in renewable energy (excluding hydroelectric power). The share of the non-fossil fuels supply decreased to 16.6%, down from the previous fiscal year.
- The amount of generated electricity decreased by 2.2% on a year-on-year basis (1.0106 PWh), and the ratio of non-fossil power sources was 27.2%, almost the same as that of the previous fiscal year.
- The power generation mix showed that renewable energy (including hydroelectric power) was 21.7%, up by 1.3% points [%p] on a year-on-year basis, nuclear energy was 5.5%, down by 1.3%p, and thermal power (excluding biomass-fired) was 72.8%, with almost no change.
- The energy self-sufficiency rate was 12.6%, down by 0.7%p on a year-on-year basis (on the IEA basis).
(3) Trends in energy-related CO2 emissions
- CO2 emissions decreased by 2.3% on a year-on-year basis, falling to 0.96 Gt. This is the lowest emission since FY1990, or a decrease by 22.0% from FY2013.
- CO2 emissions increased for four consecutive years until FY2013 due to the economic recovery after the 2007-2008 financial crisis and impact of the shutting down of nuclear power plants after the Great East Japan Earthquake. However, the emissions were on a declining trend thereafter due to a decrease in energy demand, expansion of renewable energy and the restart of nuclear power plants. In FY2022, emissions decreased on a year-on-year basis for the first time in two years, due to the decline in energy consumption.
- Looking at a breakdown for each sector on a year-on-year basis, a decrease by 4.9% is seen in the business sectors and a decrease by 1.4% in the household sector, while an increase by 3.9% is recorded in the transportation sector.
- CO2 emissions intensity of electricity (at the consumers’ end) decreased by 0.1% year-on-year to 0.47 kg-CO2/kWh.
Note: Energy amount in this material is shown in energy units measured in joules. Data in billion liters of crude oil equivalent are obtained from the PJ data (PJ [petajoule]: 10 to the 15th power joules) herein, multiplied by 0.0258. (crude oil equivalence: 1 liter of crude oil = 9,250 kcal = 38.7 MJ. 1 MJ = 0.0258 liters.)
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