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Energy White Paper

Japan Will Explore New Avenues for Energy Self-Sufficiency

Japan’s government this June adopted a new energy white paper that suggests the country must rely on a larger share of nuclear and renewables to slash its carb…

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…

First NPROXX System Certified

NPROXX has its first certified hydrogen storage system. The containerised 10-foot solution providing a usable H2 storage capacity of 225 kg has received approva…

Turkey Global Leader in New Geothermal Capacity in 2018, Croatia Sixth

Turkey was the global leader in adding new geothermal capacity in 2018, with 219 MW. Croatia was sixth worldwide, with 17.5 MW.

Solar Power Panel

JinkoSolar Adding More Manufacturing Capacity as Demand Outstripping Supply

Leading ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JinkoSolar is expanding production capacity of high-efficiency products to meet demand as the company is al…

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…

Offshore Wind Power

GWEC: 200GW of Offshore Wind by 2030 Is Possible

The global offshore wind sector has the potential to grow to 200GW of capacity by 2030, according to a new report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

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…

EV Market

BYD Adds Bus Manufacturing Capacity In North America With New Canadian Plant

New energy company BYD is taking another step into the lucrative North American bus market with the announcement of a new bus plant in Newmarket, Ontario, Canad…

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…

Coal Mine

US Renewable Energy Capacity Beats Coal for the First Time

Coal's downward trend has been ongoing since its peak in 2008 and has no end in sight. Coal consumption has dropped by 39 percent to the lowest level in 40 year…