Japan

Japan boosts small-scale geothermal plant installations

These could help boost its total capacity by 272MW by 2028.

Japan boosts small-scale geothermal plant installations

These could help boost its total capacity by 272MW by 2028.

Tokyo Gas revs up LNG and renewables investment

It eyes a 67% increase in profit with the increased investment.

Foreign offshore wind giants eye investments in Japan

770MW is in the pipeline across only four projects.

Japanese power companies' nuclear expenses up 12% in 2018

Capital investment in nuclear sharply rose by 40%.

Japan strengthens local offshore renewables market with coastal waters law

It assigns property management laws to the general waters in Japan’s coastal areas.

Germany's RWE eyes expansion to Japan's offshore wind market

It wants to expand its total capacity of 2.5GW.

TEPCO greenlights reboot funding for 1,100MW nuclear plant

Safety upgrades are expected to be complete by March 2021.

Japan on track to secure stable electric supply for winter

126,880MW of thermal energy will be available in January 2020.

JAPC to get $3.22b to reboot nuclear plant near Tokyo

80% of the funds will come from TEPCO and Tohoku Electric Power.

Total builds third solar plant in Japan

The 52MWp solar park in Miyagi prefecture is its biggest yet.

JERA buys 22% stake in Bangladesh's Summit Power for $330m

JERA will get its hands on 1,941MW of Summit’s assets.

Japan risks $71b of stranded power assets over coal push

The country still has 11GW of under-construction coal capacity.

$5b of Japanese megabank loans flow into Asian coal projects: report

Majority of the loans are financing coal projects in India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Japan kick-starts electricity futures trading

But it got off to a quiet start with low trading volume as crude oil prices shot upwards.

Kyushu Electric Power to decommission Genkai-2 Nuclear Power Plant

The company also seeks to revise the decommissioning plan for Genkai-1.