In late September, Okinawa Electric Power, Shikoku Electric Power and Tohoku Electric Power — which are among 10 utilities that monopolise the management of Japan’s grid — followed Kyushu Electric Power in temporarily suspending new access applications.
The moratorium — which one analyst says could remain in place until the government conducts its annual review of the nation’s feed-in tariff (FIT) system in early 2015 — has raised questions about how the authorities will manage the future development of renewable energy.
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