Responding to the Japanese Revised Energy Conservation Law
As a result of the revisions to and enforcement of the Japanese Energy Conservation Law*1, business operators are now required to grasp their annual energy usage at all their business sites in Japan.
In the Fujitsu Group, we use a system (Fujitsu FIP's SLIMOFFICE) that grasps and tabulates the amount of energy we used in all of Japan, include the office space we rent, and manages the amount used by each company in the Group. Note that the Fujitsu Group includes 26 companies that fall within the class of Specified Business Operators (businesses whose annual energy usage is in excess of 1,500 kl when converted to a crude oil equivalent value) newly stipulated in the revised law.
Also, the amount of energy used by the Group within Japan under the Energy Conservation Law in FY 2010 was 618 thousand kl, and that corresponds to CO2 emissions of about 1.096 million tons*2 based on the Law Concerning the Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures*3, which was also revised.
*1 the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy.
*2 There are differences in ranges for tabulation that include tenants and calculations based on CO2 conversion coefficients for each electric power company for results reporting under our Environmental Protection Program.
*3 A system for calculating, reporting, and disclosing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions stipulated by Japan's Law Concerning the Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures.