About JNC (As of January 2009)
1. Organization of JNC
Chairman: Dr. Ichiro Tai
Vice Chairman: Prof. Akihiko Yokoyama , Mr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Collective members (I): 35 (10 Utilities, 3 Institutes, 2 Railway Companies, 20 Manufacturers)
Collective members (II): 8
Individual members: 215
Honorable member: 2
2. JNC contribution to CIGRE Organization
Executive Committee: Dr. Ichiro Tai
Administrative Council: Dr. Ichiro Tai
Editorial Committee for ELECTRA: Dr. Shinta Fukui
3. Promotional action to increase CIGRE members - Promotion to Young Members -
JNC sent a letter/e-mail to introduce CIGRE activities and advantages to become a Member of CIGRE. Young engineers are especially and intensively invited to join CIGRE so that JNC’s activities become more active.
4. SC Meetings in odd years and Symposium 2007
JNC is positively inviting SC Meetings in odd years to Japan.
A Symposium and three SC Meetings (SC B1, B4 and C1) were jointly held in 2007 in Osaka and an Organizing committee as well as JNC worked very hard.
5. Technical Activities at National Level
Paris Session PapersNo. of Session Papers Accepted in the last seven Paris sessions:
18('96) > 22('98) > 18('00) > 21('02) > 23('04) > 27('06) > 29('08)
All session papers submitted from Japan are evaluated by JNC Papers Committee before the first submission and reviewed by JNC members before the final submission based on strict Selection Criteria. Excellent papers from Japan for Paris Session are awarded by JNC. For 2006 Session in Paris, JNC awarded one paper as the most excellent and two as excellent.
National Panel and JNC Technical Committee Meeting
Japanese Regular Member: 8 Members from Utilities, 4 Members from Manufacturers, 4 Members from Academia (Universities & Institutes). Each SC has a National Panel whose chairman is a Japanese Regular Member. Japanese panel consists of the 10 to 20 members from utilities, manufacturers and academia.
JNC has a regular Technical Committee Meeting, composed by all SC regular members, JNC Chairman / Vice-Chairman and Secretaries so that all the members in Japan can exchange and share information relating to CIGRE activities, especially opportunity of SC meetings in Japan.