OREANDA-NEWS. Panasonic Corporation, its partner companies and the city of Fujisawa have worked together to make Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town a reality. The city of Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture is located approximately 50km west of Tokyo.

In April 2014, residents began to move in, and the town's core facility, Fujisawa SST SQUARE, which is serving as the main landmark of the town and a central communication base, opened in November. The Fujisawa Energy services include Panasonic's cutting-edge technology including LED lighting, solar panels, storage batteries, and household fuel cell cogeneration systems or heat pump water heater equipped in each home. This not only promotes local generation and local consumption of energy, but with these solutions and excellent energy management, the town is aiming to reduce CO2 emissions by 70%. Moreover, these systems store backup energy resrves to last 3 days in case of emergencies.SST has now moved forward from the "construction" phase to the "cultivate" phase. It has now become fully operational as an eco and smart town that holds people's lifestyles at the heart of town development. This video introduces views of families that live in this town, people who have helped build it, and reporters from overseas.