Japan

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-…

Geothermal Drilling

Inpex to Start Exploratory Drilling for Geothermal in Shibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Mount Musadake viewed from Kaiyodai Observatory, Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan (source: Koda6029, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)INPEX Corporation (INPEX) …

Hydrogen Project

MHI and EGAT Sign MoU to Introduce Hydrogen Large Gas Turbine Co-firing Technology in Thailand to Achieve Net Zero Goals

- EGAT initiates co-firing pilot, targeting hydrogen co-firing ratio of 20% with GTCC equipment supplied by MHI- The partnership builds on the comprehensive agr…

Gas Power Stations

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Receives Additional Order for 2 Units of LNG Fuel Gas Supply System (FGSS)

- Follows previous orders for 18 FGSS for car carriers and bulk carriers built by Imabari Shipbuilding Group- FGSS units to contribute to decarbonization of the…

Energy Storage Project

Sumitomo Aims to Install 500 MW Battery Storage in Japan by Early 2031

A man walks past the logo of Sumitomo Corp outside the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, May 9, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Purchase Licensing Right…

Oil & Gas Trade

Tokyo Gas Seeks More US Natural Gas Assets, President Says

A natural gas pipeline and the Tokyo gas logo are seen in this illustration taken January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photo Purchase Licensing…

Hydrogen Production

Japan, EU Agree to Work on Creating Hydrogen Demand and Supply

Japan and the European Union on Monday agreed to work together on policies related to creating demand and supply for clean hydrogen as well as to cooperate in a…

LNG

JERA's Partial Stake in US LNG Project Going to JAPEX

Japan’s power generation company JERA, a joint venture of two major Japanese electric power companies, TEPCO Fuel & Power Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power…