What are the important factors when choosing a job placement? There will be various things such as future and stability of industry and working conditions of the company. But the era of lifetime employment has ended. For 30 to 40 years, no one knows the correct answer if asked what the future potential and stability of Tokyo or Kansai Electric Power is. Not surprisingly, the outlook for the next five years is not certain.
The emphasis should be on whether they will give you the opportunity to grow properly. It is most important for you to give yourself skill and strength through work. Conventionally, the practice of the electric power industry was mainly relatively monotonous maintenance, management and planning work. However, the current electric power industry is in the process of seeking new approaches not existing in the past, and there is no doubt that it is full of opportunities for you to train yourself.
In view of the fact that the population decline in the future is sure, it is common view that big growth can not be expected in the domestic energy market. Management is sharing this sense of crisis and each company is looking for ways to survive.
Let’s give a concrete example.
1 Improvement of operating rate of generator
Competition environment becomes more severe and improvement of availability of high efficiency power supply is extremely important. Electric power companies tended to leave the analysis of power trouble to the manufacturer, but they grab the correlation between the big data of their own generator and the trouble, and realize improvement in occupancy by grasping trouble signs beforehand.
2 Brokerage between unspecified large number of generators and consumers
The explosive spread of solar power generation and market liberalization simultaneously created a large number of power generators and price sensitive consumers. By adopting block chain technology in the future, it is possible to implement a supply-demand match by mediating a small power generators and consumers that will be created by termination of FIT. Efforts to realize direct transactions between them have also begun.
3 Supply and Demand Control of Renewable Energy
The spread of renewable energy, which is dependent on the weather, has brought about a big challenge to supply and demand control. Electric power companies have maintained supply and demand equilibrium exclusively through output control of traditional large scale thermal power supply, but there is a limit. Efforts to bring new control functions and added value to renewable energy itself by remote control, weather prediction and use of storage batteries have begun everywhere.
In addition to the harsh business environment, they are parts of the new power company’s efforts brought about by dissemination of renewable energy, full liberalization, transformation of digital technology, etc. Electric utility companies traditionally are not good at the interests of new business and many of them can withdraw without being able to achieve results.
But what matters most to you is whether the company is seriously working through inevitable environment, whether to boost the creative intentions of young people, whether funds can continue to advance into new fields.
The environment is well prepared for you.
The practice of traditional infrastructure companies is composed of many routine tasks, and accurately doing these will build personal trust. Many new recruits will be such practices. At the same time, utility companies are sensitive to the opportunities described here, and the desire to pour out significant human resources into new fields has been increased.
The foundation for growing you is fully prepared. The rest will depend on you.