Mr. Shinichi Yokoyama, State Minister for Reconstruction, visited Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA)
On December 24, 2019, Mr. Shinichi Yokoyama, State Minister for Reconstruction toured FREA.
Welcome remarks and introductory overviews of AIST were given by Terunobu Yamauchi, Vice-President of AIST, and overviews of FREA were presented by Masaru Nakaiwa, Director-General of FREA.
Following these formalities, State Minister Yokoyama proceeded to laboratory tour, and was explained about the Program for Promoting Technologies Invented by Industry in Disaster Areas in Tohoku* by a local company (INFINI Co. Ltd. in Naraha, Fukushima) who developed a product through this support program.
Then, Hirohide Furutani, Director of the Renewable Energy Research Center (RENRC), introduced various research themes in the Outdoor Demonstration Field and the Energy Control Building.
*FREA provides support for commercializing renewable energy related technologies and know-how developed by companies located in the three prefectures struck by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures). (*This site is available only in Japanese.) （
http://www.fukushima.aist.go.jp/seeds/index.html）
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| State Minister Yokoyama (right) listening to an explanation of a product developed by a local company |
State Minister Yokoyama (center) listening to an explanation of research activities in the Energy Control Building |