Japan Looks To Distributed Control Theory To Manage Energy Market Deregulation

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @12:13AM from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

Hallie Siegel writes: Japan's power industry is currently centralized, but it aims to deregulate by around 2020. Coupled with this major structural market change, the expansion of thermal, nuclear and renewable power generation will place additional demands on the management of the country's energy market. Researchers from the Namerikawa lab at Keio University are working with control engineers, power engineers and economists to designing mechanical and control algorithms that can manage this large-scale problem.

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Re:Regulation is the enemy of free markets. by QuantumReality · 2015-04-22 00:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

You don't see the bigger picture here. There are certain segments of market that NEED to be regulated. 2008 finance crisis was because of deregulation's in finance market. 90% of products do not need to be regulated, but energy,finance etc. are not one of them.