Japan

Geothermal Power Project

Japan, New Zealand Strenghten Geothermal Innovation Partnerships

Signing of MOU for geothermal partnerships between New Zealand and Japan (source: GNS Science)A number of agreements between companies from New Zealand and Japa…

Electricity Trade

Citadel to Buy Power Firm Energy Grid in First Japanese Acquisition

Hedge fund Citadel will buy Japanese power firm Energy Grid in its first acquisition in Japan and the first major U.S. investment in Japan's wholesale energ…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Ohi Units Cleared for Another 10 Years' Operation

Japan's nuclear regulator has approved Kansai Electric Power Company's long-term reactor management plan for units 3 and 4 of its Ohi nuclear power plan…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

JERA Ends Ammonia Co-firing Trial at Coal Power Station With Positive Results

File Photo: The logo of JERA Co., Inc., the world's biggest LNG buyer, is displayed at the company office in Tokyo, Japan July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/…

Ammonia

Japan's Mitsui Builds Ammonia Plant in UAE, to Start Production in 2027

The logo of Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co. is seen in Tokyo, Japan, January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Purchase Licensing RightsMitsui & Co …

Geothermal Power Project

JOGMEC Announces Subsidies for Six Geothermal Power Projects in Japan

Minami Kayabe geothermal power plant in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan (source: ORIX Corporation)The Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) has a…

Natural Gas

Japanese Trading House Mitsui Buys Shale Gas Asset in Texas

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. Ltd bought a shale gas asset in Texas that it seeks to bring to full-scale development after 2026.Mitsui’s US-based su…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Toshiba, Sojitz and Cbmm Unveil an Ultra-Fast Charging Electric Bus Prototype Powered by Next-Generation LI-Ion Batteries With Niobium Titanium Oxide Anodes

Toshiba Corporation and Sojitz Corporation of Japan, and Brazil’s CBMM, the world’s leading producer of niobium, have completed development of a nex…

Biofuel

75 MW Biomass Power Plant in Japan Begins Operations

Panoramic view of Yatsushiro Biomass Power Plant. / SOURCE: Toyota Tsusho Corp.Toyota Tsusho Corp. on June 17 announced that the 75-megawatt (MW) Yatsushiro Bio…

Hydrogen Project

Japan's Eneos, Mitsubishi to Expand Alliance Into Hydrogen, Decarbonised Fuels

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp's Eneos brand logo on a tanker lorry in a train at a station nearby its refinery in Yokohama, Japan February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Ki…

Renewable Energy

Japan Could Be Energy-Independent by 2060 Thanks to Renewables, Rystad Energy CEO Says

Jarand Rystad, chief executive of Rystad Energy, poses for a picture during an interview with Reuters, in Tokyo, Japan June 5, 2024. REUTERS/Katya Golubkova Pur…

Floating Offshore Wind

SSE Pacifico Team to Develop Deep-Sea Japanese Floater

SSE Pacifico and partners have secured public funding for a 30MW Japanese floating offshore wind demonstration project.The demonstrator will be located off the …

LNG

ADNOC Awards $5.5 Bln of Contracts for Ruwais LNG Plant

Logos of ADNOC are seen at Gastech, the world's biggest expo for the gas industry, in Chiba, Japan, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Purchase Li…

Energy Storage Project

Eku Energy Aims to Expand Its Global Battery Storage to 9 Gwh by 2028

Battery storage company Eku Energy aims to expand its global energy storage capacity to 9 gigawatt-hours by 2028 from about 1.3 GWh now, to help hasten the ener…

Electric Vehicles

Honda Begins Production of CR-V E:FCEV Fuel Cell Plug-in EV in Ohio

Honda started production of the all-new 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) at the Performance Manufacturing Center (PMC) in Ohio. The all-…