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Japan Wants to be the Leader in Renewables
Recently, Japan’s Parliament passed an aggressive national feed-in-tariff (FiT) for renewable energy, positioning itself as the next large growth market for renewable energy. The new energy law calls for 30,000 megawatts of renewable energy to be deployed over the next ten years. Feed-in-tariffs have been remarkably effective in accelerating renewable energy deployment, because they enable [...]
Japan Solar Shipments to Jump 10 Fold
Solar panel makers and Solar market as a whole will get a lift this year thanks to new renewable energy laws that has been passed in Japan. A renewable energy bill will include a feed-in tariff that pays homeowners for the power they generate from solar panels, analyst Jesse Pichel said. The bill, which will [...]
Electric Vehicles With No Batteries?
You would be aware of a range of options available for running electrically powered vehicles, also commonly known as EVs. But, here’s an innovative concept taken up by Masahiro Hanazawa of Toyota Central R&D Labs, and by Takashi Ohira of Toyohashi University of Technology – A class-apart, environmentally friendly proposal to power EVs to run [...]
Japan Moves Away from Nuclear Power
In a down market, and in a country that has been affected by a catastrophic natural disaster that wreaked havoc on an energy source that supplied 1/3 of the total energy used for power, Japan has decided to shift away from nuclear power, and invest heavily in solar, geothermal, and wind power. The move also [...]
Japan Vows to Develop More Renewable Energy
As the city of Nagasaki held a solemn memorial for the victims of the nuclear bomb that devastated that city on August 9, 1945, the city’s mayor joined Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan in calling for a shift from nuclear power to renewable energy. The nuclear bomb that hit Nagasaki killed more than 70,000 people. On [...]
Japan Postpones Carbon Emissions Trading Plan
Japan’s national cap-and-trade plan, due to go into effect in 2013, hasbeen postponed or even scrapped because of intense lobbyingby powerful business interests and because the measure has yet to makeheadway in other key countries. Business interests are against the plan because it would put them at adisadvantage compared to peers operating in countries without suchregulations. They warned Japan would lose jobs [...]
FutureWatch: 3-D Vending Machines in Japan
I should start off by saying that I’m a Pepsi gal… So while Coke would not be my beverage of choice, I have recently taken notice of the Coca-Cola Company’ssustainability efforts. In a recent article regarding energy efficiency, I wrote about Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) in the UK as an example for saving energy and money [...]
Japan, Tunisia Forge Sustainable Business Partnership
This past weekend at the second annual Japan-Arab Economic Forum, thegovernments of Japan and Tunisia formally sealed a deal to collaborateon a sustainable business project that takes advantage of Tunisia’sample solar resources. Together the two countries will be building asolar power plant in the Sahara desert, which is rapidly becoming a hotspot for some of [...]
Underwriters Laboratories Opens Lab In Japan
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a provider of safety testing and certification, has opened atesting and certification facility for photovoltaic equipment in IseCity, Mie Prefecture, Japan. In addition to offering performanceand safety testing services for PV equipment in Japan, the facility will provide technical support to Japanese PV equipment manufacturers asthey develop their businesses and enter overseas [...]