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Update date: Jan. 11, 2026
Kobashi Takuro
コバシ タクロウ | Kobashi Takuro
Affiliation and department：
Job title：
Associate Professor
Homepage URL (1)：
http://web.tohoku.ac.jp/tkobashi/web
Research field (5)：
Architectural and city planning
, Machine elements and tribology
, Environmental materials/recycling technology
, Recycling systems and society
, Environmental dynamics
Research keywords (11)：
EV
, 風力発電
, 再エネポテンシャル
, techno-economic analysis
, solar power
, 再生エネルギー
, グリーンランド
, 温暖化
, 氷床コア
, 完新世
, 気候変動
Research theme for competitive and other funds (14)：
- 2025 - 2028 Enhancing Japan's Balancing Market Flexibility through Sector Coupling: A Focus on PV-EV Integration
- 2024 - 2027 Rooftop PV and EV as battery with bi-directionally charging for urban decarbonization
- 2024 - 2026 Urban decarbonization using renewable energy, EV, hydrogen systems
- 2023 - 2026 Deep decarbonization pathways of urban districts through rooftop photovoltaics and decarbonization technologies
- 2023 - 2024 Survey for a pilot project of rooftop PV + EV
- 2022 - 2023 Urban region carbon mapping 2022
- 2019 - 2020 Strategic and practical transition research to establish city energy systems sustainable for the next 1,000 years
- 2018 - 2019 Study for energy transition policy and strategy towards RE100% Asian cities
- 2014 - 2016 Investigation of Greenland temperature variability over the 6000 years using trapped air in ice cores
- 2010 - 2016 Warming events and their impacts during the past 150,000 years viewed from Greenland ice
- 2012 - 2015 Physical processes of formation of climate signals in deposited snow in inland plateau of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- 2013 - 2015 Reconstruction of Dome Fuji temperature over the past 4000 years
- 2009 - 2014 Mechanisms of glacial-interglacial climatic changes explored with Antarctic ice core analyses and climate modeling
- 2011 - 2013 High precision Greenland temperature reconstruction over the past 2000 years using a new method of measuring gasses in trapped air in ice cores
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Papers (48)：
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Tosiyuki NAKAEGAWA, Takuro Kobashi. Indonesia Climate Change: Observations and Future Projections in IPCC AR6 WG I and Beyond. Forum Geografi. 2025. 39. 3. 440-454
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Takuro Kobashi, Junbin Xiao, Tuo Zhang. Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2025. 131. 106717-106717
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Nguyen Thi Quynh Trang, Koharu Okada, Yusei Sugiyama, Takahiro Yoshida, Yujiro Hirano, Peraphan Jittrapirom, Tosiyuki Nakaegawa, Takuro Kobashi. On the decarbonization potentials of rooftop PVs integrated with EVs as battery for all the municipalities of Japan. Applied Energy. 2025. 393. 126067-126067
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Takuro Kobashi, Eric Zusman, Makoto Taniguchi, Masaru Yarime. Facilitating a carbon neutral transition in Kyoto:Initiatives on rooftop photovoltaics integrated with electric vehicles. Technology in Society. 2025. 80. 102774
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Meng Yang, Yisheng Liu, Takuro Kobashi. Asymmetric Nash bargaining model for operation optimization of multi-integrated energy systems considering peer-to-peer energy trading. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2024. 114. 105791-105791
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MISC (14)：
Books (2)：
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Implementing urban decarbonization
2023 ISBN:4886618545
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Urban Decarbonization
Taiga Publishing Co. 2021 ISBN:4886618537
Lectures and oral presentations (37)：
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2km Mesh Analysis of Rooftop Photovoltaics and Electricity Demand in Kyoto City and Inter-Mesh Energy Flow Analysis
(International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE) 2025)
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Techno-economic study of combined rooftop PV, wind, and EV systems for Great Sapporo region in Japan
(International Conference on Applied Energy(ICAE) 2025)
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Mitigating Renewable Curtailment in Tohoku 2030: Hydrogen and Electric Vehicle Flexibility for Japan’s Energy Transition
(International Conference on Applied Energy(ICAE) 2025)
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屋根上太陽光発電とEVを活用した分散型エネルギーシステム(SolarEV City)
(国会議員向け勉強会(GR Japan主催) 2025)
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1Km mesh Analysis of Rooftop Photovoltaics and Electricity and Demand in Kyoto City and inter-Mesh Energy Flow Analysis
(2025)
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Education (3)：
- 2001 - 2007 University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography(Ph.D.)
- 1998 - 2001 Texas A&M University Department of Geology&Geophysics (M.Sc.)
- 1994 - 1998 Hokkaido University Department of Engineering(B.Eng.)
Professional career (1)：
- Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Work history (9)：
- 2022/04 - 現在 Tohoku University Graduate School of Environmental Studies Associate Professor
- 2020/09 - 2022/03 Global Carbon Project, International Tsukuba Office Acting Director
- 2019/04 - 2022/03 National Institute for Environmental Studies Research Associate
- 2019/04 - 2020/03 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature Visiting Associate Professor
- 2016/11 - 2019/03 Renewable Energy Institute Senior Researcher
- 2014/05 - 2016/04 University of Bern Climate and Environmental Physics Lecturer/Marie Curie Fellow
- 2010/05 - 2014/04 National Institute of Polar Research Project researcher/assistant professor
- 2007/10 - 2010/03 Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Climate Policy Researcher
- 2006/07 - 2006/09 World Bank Environment and Social Development Unit of the East Asia and Pacific Region Short term consultant
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Committee career (1)：
- 2021/05 - 現在 京都未来門プロジェクト実行委員会 京都未来門プロジェクト実行委員・代表
Awards (3)：
- 2022/12 - 石田實記念財団 研究奨励賞
- 2014/04 - EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow Investigation of Greenland temperature variability over the 6000 years using trapped air in ice cores
- 2002/05 - Texas A&M University Distinguished Graduate Student Award
Association Membership(s) (2)：
The Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS)
, JAPAN SOCIETY OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES
