Three Japanese energy companies announced last week that they have decided to scrap plans to build a 2 gigawatt (GW) coal-fired power station in the Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, saying that the project would not be economically feasible.
Canadian Solar has finished the year with a run of financing acquisitions and the sale of the Illumination Solar Power Plant. The Canadian-based solar PV manufacturer has announced four separate pieces of news which has, over the space of the last three days — and in combination with the Paris … [continued]
Operators began gearing up the nuclear reactor at Kyushu Electric Power’s 31-year-old Sendai plant in the city of Satsumasendai last week. Sendai is about 600 miles (1,000 km) southwest of Tokyo on energy-poor Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu. The community closest to the plant and governor of the prefecture … [continued]
Japan’s renewable development is slowing after a big push in 2011 following the Fukushima disaster. They’re even bringing back some nuclear energy.
March 2011—when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastated four reactors and endangered two others at Fukushima 1—forced a radical rethinking of Japan’s energy picture that continues today with a Japan feed-in tariff program. In the latest round, the utilities are pushing back against the feed-in tariffs and the fruitful development … [continued]
