All new houses in Tokyo built by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar power panels to cut household carbon emissions, according to a new regulation passed by the Japanese capital’s local assembly Thursday. The mandate, the first of its kind for a Japanese municipality, requires about 50 major builders to equip homes of […]
Tokyo 2020: Hydrogen Shows Promises of a Carbon-Free Future
With hydrogen’s growing momentum in politics and business, Japan is showing the way forward to a hydrogen-based society. One of the first countries to adopt a national hydrogen strategy in 2017, it is giving hydrogen a starring role at Tokyo 2020. Tokyo 2020 will be the very first time in Olympic history that the Olympic […]
China’s Uighur Labour Clouds Solar Sector As Aanel Prices Swell
TOKYO: China’s alleged abuses against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang are now casting a shadow over the solar industry, as human-rights-conscious countries shy away from a region that is one of the world’s biggest sources of silicon. The price of silicon used to make polycrystalline wafers for solar panels now stands at more than US$27 per […]
Mitsubishi Electric Boss Resigns Over Decades of Falsified Data
The company said it had improperly inspected some of its train-carriage air conditioners and brake compressors. The earliest of the fabricated inspection documents dated from 1985. Tokyo: The chief of Mitsubishi Electric resigned on Friday after the Japanese electronics conglomerate admitted to having falsified certain inspection data over more than three decades. Earlier this week, […]
Laos to Sell Vietnam Its Wind Power With Mitsubishi’s Help
Cross-border power-sharing is expected to increase in Southeast Asia TOKYO : Japanese trading conglomerate Mitsubishi Corp. will develop a massive onshore wind farm in Laos that will supply electricity to Vietnam. The facility will have power generation capacity of 600 megawatts, making it one of the largest onshore wind farms in Southeast Asia. The price […]
Japan Looks To Become Leader In Wind Energy
Japan has notoriously been dependent on energy imports, being the world’s fifth-largest crude importer and second-largest LNG importer (having lost the top position to China last year). Its self-sufficiency ratio dropped substantially after the 2011 Fukushima incident, from some 20% to 7-8%. Even though Tokyo did manage to hew off a couple of percentage points […]
Japan Pushes Solar Panel Mandate For New Public Buildings
Proposal to require installations on all buildings, including homes, is dropped The Ministry of Environment estimates that public buildings can fit the equivalent of nearly a third of all solar power capacity that currently exists in Japan. TOKYO : Japan should require solar panels installations on all new public buildings as the country ramps up […]
Amazon Com : Seeks Renewable Power for Japan Data Centres – Nikkei
TOKYO : Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Japanese power utilities and trading houses to build a renewable power plant in Japan to procure clean energy for its local data centres, the Nikkei reported late on Thursday. The U.S. online retail and tech giant is seeking ways to procure electricity over the long term from […]
Fujitsu, AutoGrid to Boost Renewable Energy Use in Japan Towards Realization of Decarbonized Society with Virtual Power Plant Solution
TOKYO : Fujitsu Limited and AutoGrid Systems, Inc. today announced that Fujitsu will begin offering Autogrid’s Virtual Power Plant (VPP) (1) solution in the Japanese market. Fujitsu will leverage the solution to maximize the use of distributed energy resources (2) in the domestic energy market and contribute to the expansion of renewable energy and the […]
Japanese plant turns sewage into clean hydrogen
Renewable hydrogen systems manufacturer Ways2H and its shareholder Japan Blue Energy have completed a plant in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen. The green hydrogen will supply fuel cell vehicles and will also be used for power generation. The facility was developed and built in partnership with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Toda […]
