Shota Furuya
Shota Furuya is a researcher at Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies. He has worked on community based renewable energy development in Japan. He was a co-chair of Community Energy Working Group at International Renewable Energy Agency Coalition for Action (2018-2025). He received PhD in community energy planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. He focuses on the process in which different local stakeholders share a sustainable and creative future vision.
Session
This presentation reports the renewable energy zoning project conducted in Urahoro, Hokkaido. By combining QGIS with various open data sources and utilizing a custom-built participatory mapping system developed with generative AI, we visualized locations valued by residents to achieve an appropriate balance between conservation and renewable energy development.