Japan's electric power sector aims to improve carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of electricity generated to around 73 percent of the 2008/09 level by the business year 2020/21, an industry association said on Friday. Hurt by the extended shutdown of a quake-hit major nuclear plant, the power sector's CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour were estimated to be around 0.45 kg in the 2008/09 business year that ended last month, roughly in line with the previous year's 0.453 kg, the Federation of Power Companies of Japan said. In the year starting in April 2020, the sector will aim to lower CO2 emissions to about 0.33 kg through the planned development of new nuclear reactors and advanced combined cycle thermal power generation units, the federation said. The electric power sector has voluntarily pledged to the government to cut CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour by 20 percent to 0.34 kg on average, compared with 1990 levels, over the five business years that started in April 2008 by buying credits to offset domestic emissions under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism.

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