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Japan Total Energy Production & Consumption

Energy consumption per capita was 3.11 toe in 2024. Electricity consumption per capita was around 7.4  MWh.

Total energy consumption has been decreasing by 2%/year on average since 2010, reaching 3 986  Mtoe in 2024.

The energy intensity is decreasing rapidly (-2.6%/year since 2010).

Graph: CONSUMPTION TRENDS BY ENERGY SOURCE (Mtoe)

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan Total Energy Production & Consumption

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Japan Oil Production & Consumption

Japan is the world's sixth largest oil importer. Crude oil imports decreased by 7% in 2024. They have been relatively stable over 2020-2023 (124  Mt average), 15% below their 2019 level.

As part of an IEA initiative of a coordinated release of 60 mbl of oil to mitigate surging crude oil prices, Japan started releasing oil from privately held reserves in mid-2022. By end-2023, the total oil release amounted to 13.5  million barrels, i.e. 3% of the country's reserves (reserves represented 232 days of domestic demand in 2023).

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan Crude Oil Production & Consumption

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Interactive Chart Japan Refined Oil Products Production & Consumption

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Japan Natural Gas Production & Consumption

Gas consumption has decreased by around 2.5%/year since 2012, reaching 99  bcm in 2024 (23% below its 2012 level). Two thirds of natural gas is used for power generation.

Graph: NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION (bcm)

Graph: GAS CONSUMPTION BREAKDOWN BY SECTOR (2024, %)

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan Gas Production & Consumption

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Japan Coal and Lignite Production & Consumption

Coal consumption remained stable in 2024 at 157  Mt, following a 9% drop in 2023. After a rise between 1990 and 2007, coal consumption declined slowly between 2013 and 2022 (-1.1%/year).

Electricity production absorbs 69% of the coal demand and the rest is mainly linked to steel production; 19% is used in coking plants and blast furnaces and 18% in industry, half of which for steel.

Graph: COAL CONSUMPTION (Mt)

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan Coal and Lignite Production & Consumption

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Japan Power Production & Consumption

Electricity consumption has been slowly decreasing since 2010 (-1%/year on average), reaching 913  TWh in 2024, which is 22% below its 2010 level.

Graph: ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION (TWh)

Industry accounts for 34% of electricity consumption, followed by services (33%) and households (29%).

Graph: ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION BREAKDOWN BY SECTOR (2024, %)

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan Power Production & Consumption

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Japan Renewable in % Electricity Production

The 67th Strategic Energy Plan (20251) aims to raise the share of renewables in the power mix to 36-3840-50% (including hydropower) in 20430, with plans to make renewables the main power source in 2050 (27.59% carbon free in 20234).

Feed-in tariffs (FiTs) were removed in 2020 for large solar PV (>250  kW) and in 2023 for wind (>50  kW). They were replaced by a tendering program initiated by METI. FiTs were introduced for solar PV in 2009 (for surplus electricity production only) and for other renewables in 2011.

Four auctions are expected for solar PV in 2024.

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan Share of Renewables in Electricity Production (incl hydro)

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Japan GHG emissions and CO₂ emissions

In February 2025, 1, Japan updated raised its NDC target to a 73% 46% reduction in GHG emissions by 2040 2030 compared to 2013 (and 60% by 2035), on top of the previous goal of 46% reduction by 2030 (NDC 2021) (26% previously). This would correspond to reaching an emission level of 570  MtCO 2eq in 2035 and 380  MtCO 2eq in 2040. The 2013 reference corresponds to Japan's peak of GHG emissions, in the aftermaths of the Fukushima disaster and when thermal power generation was at its highest level.

Source: Japan energy report

Interactive Chart Japan CO₂ emissions

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