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At the same time, this action on price setting appears to be a fight that the nuclear village could not avoid. The threat of a potent FIT in the specific context of Japan is too great, due to the continuing shocks from Fukushima, the increasingly mobilized local interests, and the Schumpeterian “creative destruction” threat from innovative capitalists and the disruptive changes associated with information technology matched with renewables. But the nuclear village’s foray appears to have only increased the renewable forces' incentives to work together and forge powerful institutions. Among other things, they are rapidly working towards building a renewable-centred version of Keidanren. So the nuclear village could not avoid its gambit to "occupy" the FIT's price-setting committee, but in the end they may get kicked out altogether. We'll know soon enough.