Cabinet Decision Made on the FY2024 Annual Report on Energy (Energy White Paper 2025)

Outline of the report

The Energy White Paper describes the status of measures taken regarding energy supply and demand in the previous fiscal year. In addition to such data, this year's paper introduces data focusing on the following.

Outline of the 2025 report

(1)  Progress in Reconstruction of Fukushima

• Regarding the retrieval of fuel debris from the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, two successful trial retrievals have been carried out at Unit 2. In addition, the safety of ALPS treated water for discharge to the sea has been confirmed based on monitoring results and an evaluation by the IAEA.
• Based on the Specified Re-inhabitation Area established to allow all residents who wish to return to their homes to do so, reconstruction and revitalization plans for Okuma Town, Futaba Town, Namie Town, Tomioka Town, and Minamisoma City have been approved so far. In Iitate Village and Katsurao Village, the evacuation order was partially lifted in March 2025 in order to make use of land necessary for reconstruction.
• Efforts to rebuild businesses and livelihoods and create new industries are progressing, as discussions are underway to revise the Blueprint for Industrial Development Based on the Fukushima Innovation Coast Framework. In addition, the Acceleration Plan 2.0 of the Fukushima Plan for a New Energy Society has been formulated to expand the introduction of renewable energy and social implementation of hydrogen in Fukushima.

(2) Japan’s Efforts to Achieve Green Transformation (GX) and Carbon Neutrality (CN) by 2050

• In addition to ensuring energy security, it is necessary to take measures that take into account the possibility of increased electricity demand due to the progress of digital transformation (DX) and GX, maintaining ambitions to tackle climate change while responding in realistic and diverse ways and strengthening industrial policy through GX.
• As an example of how energy and industrial policy should be designed for the advancement of DX and GX, effective collaboration between electricity and telecommunications (watt-bit collaboration) is being promoted through efficient power and telecommunications infrastructure, based on the uneven distribution of large-scale power demand by data centers, the timeline between data center construction and the development of decarbonized power sources, and the uneven distribution of decarbonized power sources.
• It is also essential that Japanese companies engage in discontinuous innovation and link it to their business. This white paper provides an overview of trends in next-generation energy innovation technologies, including photoelectric fusion, perovskite solar cells, floating offshore wind power generation, next-generation geothermal power generation, next-generation innovative reactors, and hydrogen and other substances (hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic fuel, synthetic methane).

(3) Trends and Background in Achieving Carbon Neutrality in 10 Major Countries/Regions

• Countries around the world are working toward achieving carbon neutrality by the 2050s to the 2070s, but there are differences in the status and the nature of their efforts.
• By examining the efforts to date of 10 major countries/regions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, focusing on GHG emissions, final energy consumption, and the ratio of non-fossil power sources, as well as on future GHG emission reduction targets and initiatives to achieve carbon neutrality, the white paper provides an overview of trends in each country toward GHG emission reductions.

Related Materials

• FY2024 Annual Report on Energy (Energy White Paper 2025) (Summary)(PDF:2,232KB)

Related Link

• Energy White Paper

Division in Charge

Research and Public Relations Office, Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Commissioner’s Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy