Takuro Kobashi

Biographic Data

ID4465671
NAMETakuro Kobashi
GIVEN NAMESTakuro
FAMILY NAMEKobashi
SIGNATUREKOBASHI T
AFFILIATIONSTohoku University
ORCID0000-0003-4153-8272
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Urban Energy Transition Toward 2050 Through Gradual Diffusion of PV, EV, and V2H

    Open AccessYutaka Iwasaki, Takuro Kobashi et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2026

    Achieving carbon neutrality toward 2050 requires not only the adoption of renewable energy technologies but also long-term planning based on their gradual integration into urban systems. This study presents a novel scenario-based framework that quantifies year-by-year impacts of deploying rooftop photovoltaics (PVs), electric vehicles (EVs), and Vehicle to Home (V2H) systems from 2018 through 2050. Five key dimensions are assessed: CO2 emission r…

  • Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery

    Open AccessTakuro Kobashi, Junbin Xiao et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2025

    Urban decarbonization is critical to addressing climate change, especially in densely populated areas facing spatial constraints for renewable energy deployment. This study evaluates the “SolarEV City Concept,” integrating rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems with electric vehicles (EVs) as energy storage at a district scale in Kyoto, Japan. Using 1 × 1 km mesh analysis, we examine optimal rooftop PV capacity, energy demand, and the techno-economic …

  • Asymmetric Nash bargaining model for operation optimization of multi-integrated energy systems considering peer-to-peer energy trading

    Open AccessMeng Yang, Yisheng Liu et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2024

  • Facilitating a carbon neutral transition in Kyoto

    Open AccessTakuro Kobashi, Eric Zusman et al.ARTICLETechnology in Society2024Cited by: 2References: 4

    With nearly 70 % of the global population expected to live in urban areas by 2050, cities will need to manage energy transitions to achieve ambitious carbon neutrality goals. As the current rate of decarbonization in cities is too slow to achieve these ambitious goals, feasible pathways toward deep decarbonization are becoming increasingly urgent. This paper synthesizes a technical and economic analysis with more qualitative methods (transition t…

  • Policy design by “imaginary future generations” with systems thinking

    Open AccessKeishiro Hara, Yutaka Nomaguchi et al.ARTICLEFutures2023Cited by: 4References: 28

    To achieve the societal goal of becoming a sustainable decarbonized society by 2050, it is essential to design visions and policies that take into account the perspectives of future generations overcoming intergenerational conflicts. In this paper, we present an innovative framework to envision a decarbonized society in 2050 and design policies by introducing “imaginary future generations,” together with systems thinking, and analyze the effectiv…

  • SolarEV City concept

    Open AccessTakuro Kobashi, Peraphan Jittrapirom et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Cities have become the focus of global climate mitigation efforts because as they are responsible for 60%–70% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. As the world is increasingly urbanized, it is crucial to identify cost-effective pathways to decarbonize and enhance the resilience of cities, which ensure the well-being of their dwellers. Here, we propose a ‘SolarEV City’ concept, in which integrated systems of cities’ roof-top photovoltaics and electri…