UK energy storage provider Moixa announced its new GridShare AI platform to manage the world’s largest cluster of residential energy storage installations with 35 MWh across 3,500 homes in Japan.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, better known as TEPCO, announced this week it intends to pursue the development of up to 6 to 7 gigawatts (GW) worth of renewable energy worth tens of billions of dollars in a move away from its traditional reliance on nuclear energy.
An agreement has been reached between the state-owned utility company Saudi Electricity Co. and 3 Japan-based firms that will see Saudi Arabia get its first plug-in electric vehicle pilot program, the firm has revealed.
As a result of a class action lawsuit brought against Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) and the government of Japan — the largest such class action lawsuit to date that relates to the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima — a district court in the prefecture has ruled that both Tepco and the government are liable for damages … totaling only around 500 million yen ($4.44 million).
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) recently partnered with Energy Excelerator, and will become a member of its Global Advisory Board. “Energy Excelerator is a leader in energy innovation. At a time when TEPCO is adapting to rapidly changing market conditions, this partnership will allow us to meet companies … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. I made a mistake the other day when I said this presentation was perhaps my favorite presentation at the EV Transportation & Technology Summit. I had forgotten about the presentations of a couple of utility guys. The summit had one session with perspectives from 6 … [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]
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]
Less than a week ago, Naohiro Masuda, the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Chief Decommissioning Officer, spoke about development of the “ice wall” around the four ruined reactor units at the Fukushima I power station. In the company’s regular “prompt report,” the decommission head said that along with other measures, the $0.3 … [continued]
(Reactor unit locations highlighted on TEPCO’s website map.) The Tokyo Electric Power Company nuclear power complex at Fukushima 1 has suffered a new and dangerous leak. The flaw is in the fifth reactor unit, not in one of the four originally wrecked in March 2011 in what might still become the … [continued]
