OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2012. Fujitsu, Aizuwakamatsu City and Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. today announced that they will begin formulating a master project plan for bringing about a smart community in the Aizuwakamatsu region of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

The new project was jointly proposed by the three organizations as the "Aizuwakamatsu Area Smart Community Deployment Project," which was selected as part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan's "FY 2011 Smart Community Promotion Initiative"(1). As such, the project will be conducted with the support of the New Energy Promotion Council. Going forward, the three organizations will consider the specific details of the project in anticipation of submitting a master project plan in September 2012.

The three organizations are pursuing the project in accordance with the "Plan for Revitalization in Fukushima Prefecture (First Edition)"(2), which is being carried out in Fukushima Prefecture, and the "Reconstruction Efforts Aimed at Local Community Revitalization"(3) initiative in Aizuwakamatsu City. The aim is to bring about an environmentally friendly, low-carbon society and generate new businesses by building a smart community originating in Aizuwakamatsu City, which possesses a wealth of renewable energy resources. At the same time, the organizations will work to promote the horizontal development of the initiative from Aizuwakamatsu City to the entire Prefecture, while striving to contribute to its overall reconstruction.