Japan

Clean Coal

G20 Stalls on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Despite Calls for Climate Action

As G20 countries meet for the group’s annual summit in Osaka, the world’s leading economies are failing to phase out wasteful fossil fuel subsidies and host J…

Waste2Tricity' Innovation：The Use of Technology to Turn Plastic to Electricity & Hydrogen

Waste2Tricity, the exclusive developer in Japan for the Powerhouse Energy (AIM:PHE) DMG plastic waste to electricity and hydrogen process, are in talks with the…

Japan Secures Rare Earth Supply for Longer Through Lynas Funding

It would also aid financing the relocation of Lynas' controversial processing plant from Malaysia to Western Australia, where its Mt Weld mine is located, over…

Microgrid

Here Comes the World's Biggest Virtual Power Plant

Japan is taking a leap ahead of the rest of the world, with the help of California company Autogrid, in developing what’s described as the largest behind-the-m…

Eneco Holdings Announces New High-Concentration, Scalable Hydrogen-Generation Technology

TOKYO–Eneco Holdings, Inc. is committed to the research and development of eco-friendly fuel technologies that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. In 2015, w…

Offshore Wind Power

Ideol Partners with Shizen Energy for Japanese Floater

The multi-megawatt floating wind project will comprise Ideol's Damping Pool technology located off the coast of Kyushu and will draw upon Shizen’s experience i…

China, India, Japan, South Korea to Install 1 Billion Smart Electricity Meters by 2025

The installed base of smart electricity meters in China, India, Japan and South Korea will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.9 percent from 613.4 milli…

G20 Nations Spending $63.9 Billion Annually On Coal Subsidies

Days before representatives of the G20 meet in Japan, a new report has been published by the Overseas Development Institute, or ODI, which reveals these nations…

Nuclear Policy

Japan's Nuclear Authority Greenlights New Safety Rules for Reactors

The Japanese nuclear regulator Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved new rules on back-up safety measures that could force some nuclear reactors havin…

Solar Power Plant

Sharp's 16.4MW Plant Ready to Supply Mongolia Capital

Mongolia capital Ulaanbaatar and its upcoming new airport will be partly powered by a PV plant, developed with financial support from Japan.

Solar Company

CSUNPOWER Sets Sights on Overseas Growth after SNEC Debut

The company is hoping to use growing overseas solar markets to catalyse its own development.CSUNPOWER is looking to use overseas markets, especially in Southeas…

Shell Ships First LNG Cargo from Prelude FLNG from Australia

Targeting the Asian market, Royal Dutch Shell, along with its Joint Venture Partners Japan’s INPEX, South Korea’s KOGAS and US-based OPIC, announced on 11 Jun…

Fuel Cell Trains to Be Tested in Japan by JR East

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announces plans to test new hydrogen-powered trains.The aim is to commercialize the trains by fiscal 2024.

Electric Car

Toyota to Buy Batteries from China's CATL and BYD as It Revs Up Electric Car Plans

Chinese battery makers Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) and BYD Co. have agreed to partner with Toyota Motor Corp. as the Japanese automaker dram…

3.1-MW Solar Park

3.1-mw Softbank Tomakomai Numanohata Solar Park, Japan