Global Cities Summit

Building Resilience + Overcoming Risk:

President and Chief Executive OfficerMichi Creative City Designers Inc.

Michinaga Kohno

michi@michi-city.com

May 16, 2014, Toronto

Infrastructure Solutions + City Metabolism

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Governmental Approaches of Japan

Prime MinisterCabinet Office

National Resilience Headquarters(Est. December, 2013)

The Policy Outline of National Resilience

The Fundamental Plan for National Resilience

Chapter 1 Basic Concept

Chapter 2 Future Directions for Program

Chapter 3 Future Directions for Sectors of Measures

Ministries

(i) Prevent human loss(ii) Avoid fatal damage and maintain important national and social functions(iii) Mitigate damage to people’s property and public facilities(iv) Achieve swift recovery and reconstruction

Select eight goals to be achieved in advance, 45 events that should never happen, and 45 programs for avoiding such events

Categorize initiatives required for promoting the 45 programs and necessary from a longer-term perspective into 12 individual sectors of measures and 3 cross-cutting sectors and compile future directions therefor.

(December, 2013)

(End of May, 2014)

Selection of “Model Resilient Cities”

General Recognition of Resilience in Japan

Natural disasters Earthquakes and subsequent

Tsunami Predicted eruption of Mt. Fuji Typhoons, floods and landslides Extreme weather (rainfalls) in cities

Semi-tropical squallsHeat-island phenomenon

Increasing damages of tornados

High probability of

the“NEXT ONES”

Pandemic diseases Bird-flu, New types of flu (SARS)

Armed attacks Terrorists, New extremist cults, Terrorism states

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Experiences

Sendai CityThe political, economical and cultural center of the devastated area, with population of 1 million.No direct damages by the TsunamiElectricity Water Gas

4 days 23 days 34 days

Tokyo Difficulties in getting-home (Central

business districts) Difficulty in purchasing gasoline Scheduled partial blackouts

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CentralTokyo

Yokohama

Kashiwa-no-ha

Narita AP

Chiba City

Saitama City

Kamakura

Scenes from Japan

Yokohama City One of the earliest demonstration projects on

smart grids with the governmental subsidy Demonstration of the survival of infrastructure

in the event of partial damage

Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City Private project led by a

real estate developer Re-focus on resilience

after the disaster Self-sufficient power

supply and “Smart Center” to act as an emergency operation center

“Autonomous distributed control of infrastructures”

Common Key-word

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Optimized energy management as a whole cityYokohama City

Yokohama has the double experiences of total devastation during the last 100 years.Great Kanto Earthquake

1923Air-raid 1945

By courtesy of the City of Yokohama

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Smart infrastructure in coalition with numerous infrastructures

Broader choice of energy sources in case of blackout

By courtesy of the City of Yokohama

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Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City

Shopping mallLaLaport Kashiwa-no-ha

Kashiwa-no-ha Campus,Chiba University

Kashiwa-no-ha Park

Park City 2nd TownDistrict 148(under construction)

Kashiwa Campus, University of Tokyo

Park City 1st TownKashiwa-no-ha

Campus Railway Station

*Aerial photo of the site combined with CGIs of 148th Block and Park City 2nd Town

Oak Village

By courtesy of Mitsui Fudosan

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Concept or AEMS-based Smart Grid

BEMSHEMS

BEMS

HEMS

HEMS

AEMS 　（ Area 　 Energy 　

Management System)

Solar power generation

Electric vehicles

Local IndependentPower LineFor Emergency

Electric power

company’s

Power Line

Hotel & residential Building Commercial & office 　Building

Park City 1st Town

Kashiwa-no-ha Smart Center

Storage batteries LaLaport Kashiwa-no-ha(shopping Center)

By courtesy of Mitsui Fudosan

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Distribution and Compensation of Power

HEMS

HEMS

BEMS

BEMS

PV

Power compensation

system

Compensator

HV facilities

Batteries

PV

Flow of power & control

Flow of information

PV

PV

BEMS: Building and Energy Management SystemHEMS: Home Energy Management System

Power compensation system of the area In the event of blackout of main grid, the power of local

sources and batteries is delivered to the entire area.

Batteries

Smart Center

Smart Center(AEMS)

BEMS

HEMS

By courtesy of Mitsui Fudosan

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