１９８５年プラザ合意からの急激な円高、および翌年の原油価格暴落は日本のエネルギー消費を一変させた。円高は経済を内需主導型へと転換させ、円高不況はエネルギー消費を低迷させた。しかし１９８０年代末からの平成景気によって住宅や耐久消費財の拡充がなされ、家庭エネルギー消費は着実に増加した。家電機器は大型化、多機能化され、普及率も上がる。とりわけエアコンの保有が大きくのびた。家庭エネルギー消費のなかで成長が顕著だったのは動力、給湯、冷房であり、比率が低下したのは厨房用と暖房用であった。
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- Posted at 10 Jul 2014 at 18:08
Rapid appreciation of the yen from the Plaza Accord in 1985, and crude oil price slump of the following year transformed the energy consumption of Japan. The yen was converted to a domestic demand-driven economy, a high-yen recession caused sluggish energy consumption. But the expansion of consumer durables and housing was made during the Heisei boom from the late 1980s, home energy consumption has increased steadily since then. Large, home appliances are now multi-functional, the penetration rate will continue to rise. Possession of air conditioning has in particular greatly increased energy consumption. The biggest increase in household electric consumption is in hot water and air conditioning, while comparatively reductions in heating and kitchen energy consumption have fallen.
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- Posted at 10 Jul 2014 at 18:29
The sudden high value of the yen caused by the 1985 Plaza Agreement, as well as a slump the following year in crude oil prices, Japan's energy consumption completely changed. The high-valued yen diverted the domestic demand-led recovery of the economy leaving energy consumption in a slump. However, according to the state of things during the Heisei period at the end of the 1980s, with the expansion of housing and consumer goods, household energy consumption increased. Consumer electronics increased to many uses which spread rapidly. Especially the possession of air conditioning units expanded on a grand scale. Within the remarkable rise of energy consumption in the household, the power, hot-water supply, and air-conditioning ratio declined in the kitchen and use of heating.
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52
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- Posted at 10 Jul 2014 at 18:27
With a dramatic rise of Japanese yen after Plaza Accord in 1985 and the dramatic fall in price of petroleum in the following year, the consumption pattern of energy in Japan has changed. Rise of Japanese yen has changed Japanese economy to a domestic‐demand‐oriented economy, recession caused by strong yen has resulted in the decline of energy consumption. However, with housing and consumer durables has been expanded due to bubble economy from the late 80s, domestic energy consumption has actually increased. The increase in size and multi-functionalization in consumer electronics, and diffusion rate has risen. The number of possession of air conditioners has also hugely increased. Supply of power, hot‐water supply system and air conditioning has an obvious growth in the field of domestic energy consumption, while kitchen-use and heating system has a decreasing usage in the same field.
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