A northern Japanese city’s efforts to rebuild its electric power system after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami mark a quiet shift away from the country’s old utility model toward self-reliant, local generation and transmission.

Higashi-Matsushima city major Hideo Abe shows off pictures of the city’s reconstructing plan after March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, at the city government office in Higashi-Matsushima, northern Japan, February 22, 2017.

After losing three-quarters of its homes and 1,100 people in the March 2011 temblor and tsunami, the city of Higashi Matsushima turned to the Japanese government’s “National Resilience Program,” with 3.72 trillion yen ($33.32 billion) in funding for this fiscal year, to rebuild. Tiếp tục đọc “Quiet energy revolution underway in Japan as dozens of towns go off the grid” →