At long last, Japan has entered its official Intended Nationally Determined Contribution into the pool of national climate pledges for the UN’s Paris COP21 talks in December. The Paris summit aims for a worldwide agreement to limit global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, … [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.
It’s looking increasingly likely that 17.336 GW of approved FIT solar PV projects in Japan will be canceled as a result of “insufficient grid capacity,” according to the Japan-based solar energy consultancy RTS Corporation. That striking proclamation was made following a recent meeting of the Japanese Grid Issues Working Group … [continued]
More than 11 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity have been installed in Japan over the past two years, when the country’s notable feed-in tariff incentive plan was launched, according to the country’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. To be exact, the number was 11,090 megawatts — installed in the … [continued]
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has approved 725 megawatts of new renewable power installations in just two months, a pace that sets it on track to exceed end of March 2013’s projected total by the end of 2012. More than 80% of the total approved through the end August are large-scale, non-residential solar PV systems. […]
