Japan

Power Construction

Japan Loans Jordan $100 Million for Electricity Reforms

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Jordan's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Zeina Toukan sign agreements in Amman, Jordan Se…

Net Zero

Yatsushiro City, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., Ntt Anode Energy Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi Corporation Conclude a Partnership Agreement to Expedite Carbon Neutrality in Yatsushiro City

TOKYO, Sept 1, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Yatsushiro City, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (hereinafter "Kyushu Electric Power"), NTT Anode Energy Corporation (her…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Nissan Is Reusing the Batteries From Old Leaf Electric Vehicles to Make Portable Power Sources

Batteries in older Nissan Leaf electric vehicles are getting a new life as portable power sources that can be used to run gadgets on the go or deliver emergency…

LNG

Sempra Infrastructure and Japanese Consortium to Develop Carbon-Neutral Gas Production and Lng Supply-Chain

Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra has announced an agreement with a consortium comprised of Tokyo Gas Company, Ltd., Osaka Gas Company, Ltd., Toho G…

Electric Vehicles

Toyota Takes Another Hit, Suspending All Assembly Operations in Japan

Struggles continue for Toyota – still one of the world’s largest automakers for now – as its latest hiccup comes in the form of a production s…

Thermal Coal

Malaysia Eyes Green Hydrogen to Power Shift From Fossil Fuels

Malaysia aims to roll out a plan this year on harnessing green hydrogen, with an eye toward becoming a main export hub by 2027, according to Environment Ministe…

Carbon Emissions

Fujitsu Accelerates Plans to Achieve Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across Its Supply Chain

Fujitsu today announced that it accelerated its plans to achieve carbon neutrality in its business by twenty years, setting fiscal 2030 as the new goal to reduc…

Nuclear waste

South Korea, China Protest Japan's Fukushima Radioactive Water Release

The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has initiated the release of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, more than a dec…

Nuclear waste

Japan's Discharge of Nuclear-Contaminated Water Draws Broad Condemnation

People gather to protest the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) decision on releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater in front o…

Microgrid

Smarter Grid Solutions Providing Derms for Nrel Energy Integration, Microgrid R&D Facility

A National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) research facility that works on utility microgrids is connecting new distributed energy resource management system…

Nuclear waste

Fukushima Wastewater Released Into the Ocean, China Bans All Japanese Seafood

TOKYO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a…

Nuclear waste

IAEA Presents Monitoring Data From Japan on Treated Water Release From Fukushima Daiichi

Nuclear waste

Japan Begins Releasing Treated Radioactive Water From the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Into the Sea

The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's operator says it began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific O…

Biofuel

Japan's Takuma to Build 7.1MW No.2 Biomass Plant

Japan's engineering firm Takuma plans to build a 7.1MW biomass-fired power generation plant in northern prefecture Yamagata's Shinjo city, targeting to …

Nuclear waste

Preparations Begin for Fukushima Water Discharge

The Japanese government has requested Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) begin preparations for the release of treated water currently stored at the damaged F…