Global 100% renewable energy initiative RE100 has signed its first Japanese member company, Ricoh Company Ltd., alongside an announcement that The Climate Group will work with the Japan Climate Leaders Partnership to raise awareness of the RE100, EP100, and EV100 campaigns.
Inspired by movements developed in Denmark and Germany, community power projects started to appear in Japan in the early 2000s, especially after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The concentration of global solar demand has contracted to the point where the world’s top four markets — China, the US, India, and Japan — are expected to account for 73% of a global total of 85 gigawatts in 2017.
Toyota will begin testing a newly developed hybrid boat (leisure craft) in the Tokyo region next summer, with the total feasibility study period being from July 2018 until March 2021.
Honda and Japan Post have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) relating to the future development and use of electric motorcycles for postal deliveries.
Canadian Solar, one of the world’s leading solar power companies, announced this week that it has signed a credit facility worth ¥4 billion ($35 million) with Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Company, one of Japan’s largest leasing institutions.
Six years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011, but Japan is still dealing with its impacts. Decommissioning the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant poses unprecedented technical challenges.
A new report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has outlined how Japan, in a post-Fukushima economy, can rebuild its electricity sector around the central idea of renewable energy.
Ibiden, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, intends to add 20 renewable solar power facilities to power its Japanese operations, including a large floating solar farm.
A new carsharing service based around Nissan’s all-electric New Mobility Concept vehicles has launched in the City of Yokohama in Japan, according to a new press release from Nissan.
