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　How does digital transformation (DX) proceed in the energy industry that supports the Japanese industry from the base?What are the issues in DX promotion?And what will the energy industry after DX progress?

　This is the second time of "Energy x DX", and we talk to Kunihiko Kashiya, Director of the Japan Gas (hereinafter referred to as Nichigas) and Corporate Director Kunihiko Kashiwatani.This article asked about the background of Nichigas's starting DX and the results of DX as the first part of the front and rear part.

Reference article: How to proceed with DX with a TEPCO's challenge legacy system [Part 1]

How to proceed with DX with a TEPCO's challenge legacy system [Part 2]

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　Nichigas was founded in 1955 as a propane gas operator and entered the city gas business in 1966.In 2015, a business alliance with TEPCO was launched in 2016, and a set of electricity and gas was launched as an agency for the full liberalization of electricity retailers in 2016.In 2018, he entered the electricity retail market for the electric power plan "Don Gari", and became a comprehensive energy business company that provides electricity, urban gas, and LP gas.

　Currently, in addition to the retail business, the LP gashab filling base "Yume no Kizuna Kawasaki" (hereinafter referred to as the Bonds of Dreams) is operated, and systems such as the cloud -based "Cloud Space Ship" are used to other operators.Open.He also operates the Tokyo Energy Alliance, which provides urban gas platforms in collaboration with TEPCO Energy Partner, and has a face as a platform company.

　Looking at the carbon neutral society, in addition to conventional energy supply, EVs, solar power generation, charging equipment, and energy management systems will be provided as "Energy Solution Package", aiming to realize a smart house and smart city.

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　The speed of the speed of DX in Nichigas is the speed of comparing it to other energy companies.For example, the cloud base of the core system mentioned earlier, the “Cloud Spaceship”, has been completely clouded in 2013 and has been completely clouded in 2013 (Figure 1).

　Behind the concept of DX, the company has been transformed before Japan is the leader of the president, Shinji Wada.Regarding him, who had a career from the front line of the sales site, Mr. Kashiwatani said, "The president's habit is" do not repeat the same success. "The re -baking will always be angry. "

　In the booklet "Nichigas version DX challenge", which summarizes the company's DX promotion strategy, there are words that encourage breaks with the past.The most impressive message is "The system reconstruction is inevitable that it is inevitable" "Legacy system is a" garbage mansion "that is built only with additional addition.

　In the book, President Wada said, "The premise of system reform is that you can understand and understand how each department work on site is working on data linkage. On top of that, there is a peripheral risk.If you can't lead the essential risks, you can't accept small irrationality and reach great rationality. "

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　The construction of the core system "Cloud's Spaceship" is also based on the above -mentioned ideas.The cloud was completed in 2013.In Nichigas, who has been in business for nearly 70 years, the call for abandoning the system built by the predecessor asks if it has produced a crack, and Mr. Kashiwatani returned.There was a climate that destroyed and evolved into a new one. The answer was that there was no great opposition to cutting the enlarged system and moving forward. "

　"The renewal is a daily occurrence. It is unlikely that the policy decided in the morning will change on the night of the day," where Kashiwatani talked about Nichigas's corporate culture.