Name	Sato, Yoshikuni
Current Position	Researcher
Research Interests	Competition law, energy law, utility policies & regulations
e-mail	y-sato(at)criepi.denken.or.jp    *'(at)'should be replaced by @

◆Education and Professional Experience

March 2003.	B.A, School of Law, Osaka University,
March 2005.	LL.M., Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University,
March 2022.	S.J.D., Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University.
2005-2006	Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property, Tokyo.
2006-Present	Utility Policy Researcher, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry.
2017	Adjunct Faculty of Competition Law, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.
2018	Adjunct Faculty of Energy Law, Sophia University.

◆SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

●JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Y. Sato, Administrative Board in the US NRC Introduction to The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, 68 DENRYOKU KEIZAI KENKYU 79 (2022) (in Japanese).
• Y. Sato, Climate Change and Competition Policies: Discussion on Renewable Feed-in Tariffs in Europe, 38 ANNUAL OF JAPAN ASS'N OF ECON. L. 181 (2017) (in Japanese).
• Y. Sato, Competition Issues of Long-term Electricity Contracts in Liberalized Markets - Studies of EU Competition Law Cases, 61 DENRYOKU KEIZAI KENKYU 39 (2015) (in Japanese).
• Y. Sato, Regulating Prices in the Deregulated Wholesale Electricity Market: The Scope of Mobile-Sierra Doctrine, 11 HOKKAIDO J. NEW GLOBAL L. & POL'Y 91 (2011) (in Japanese).
• Y. Sato, Antitrust Laws and the Competition Methods of Power Suppliers, 167 J. PUB. UTIL. ECON. 59 (2009) (in Japanese with English Abstract).
• Y. Sato, Electricity Customer Protection in EU Member States, 160 J. PUB. UTIL. ECON. 91 (2007) (in Japanese with English Abstract).

●CRIEPI REPORTS (All in Japanese with English Abstracts)

• Y. Sato, The Germany's Scheme to Finance the Disposal Costs of Spent Nuclear Fuels & Radioactive Wastes -The Case of KENFO-, Mar. 2021.
• Y. Sato, The European Commission's Merger Review in the Electricity and Gas Markets, Mar. 2017.
• Y. Sato, Legal Issues in Bundled Discounts of Electricity -The discussion of antitrust law in the United States- , May 2016.
• Y. Sato, The Relations between the New Electricity Regulatory Body and the Japan Fair Trade Commission: Lessons from Competition Law Enforcement by the UK Sector Regulators, Mar. 2015.
• M. Tsutsui, Y. Sato, H. Goto, M. Saegusa, & T. Hattori, Regulated Rates, Residential Choice, and Economic Behavior of Suppliers after Full Liberalization of Electricity Retail Market in Europe, May 2013.
• Y. Sato, The Promotion of Renewable Electricity and the Transmission Open Access: the Discussions on Renewable Purchase Programs in the United States, Apr. 2013.
• M. Tsutsui, Y. Sato, M. Saegusa, & T. Hattori, International Comparison of Electricity Prices based on their Components with Country-specific Backgrounds, Apr. 2012.
• Y. Sato, The Electricity Market Liberalisation and the Discounted Electricity Rate for Low Income Households: The U.K. Experience of Social Tariffs in 2008-2011, Mar. 2012.
• Y. Sato, Feed-in Tariffs in the United States: How are the rates set? How do utilities recover FIT-related costs?, Aug. 2011.
• Y. Sato, Recent Developments on the Revenue Decoupling: An Electricity Tariff Regime toward Energy Efficiency in U.S., Mar. 2010.
• Y. Sato, The Control of Exclusionary Conducts under U.S. Antitrust Laws: Recent Controversies about General Standards for Illegality Judgments, Apr. 2009.
• Y. Sato, The Control of Exclusionary Conducts under Antitrust Law in the U.S. Retail Electricity Markets and the Implication to Japanese Law, May 2008.
• Y. Sato & M. Maruyama, The Current Status of Electricity Customer Protection in the Liberalized US and European Markets, Aug. 2007.

●CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Y. Sato, Electricity Market Liberalisation and Universal Service: The Protection of Low-income Customers in U.K., presented at the 29th Conf. on Energy, Economics & Environment, Japan Soc'y Energy & Res, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 2013 (in Japanese).
• Y. Sato & T. Hattori, Utility Rate Mechanisms to Promote Energy Efficiency in U.S., presented at the 31st Annual Conf., Japan Soc'y Energy & Res, Osaka, Japan, Jun. 2012 (in Japanese).
• Y. Sato, Antitrust Law and Exclusionary Conducts in Retail Electricity Markets, presented at the 2nd IAEE Asian Conf., Perth, Western Australia, Nov. 2008.