Japan

Windzones are not the only worries players must think about.

292 turbines will be "old" by 2034.

Dreams of higher wind capacity are blown away.

At least 60 new plants are being planned over the next decade.

On occasion of a Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident book-release1 event organised by a well-educated, secluded community in the Santa Ynez Valley (California), I came upon the above three words during a book-signing. Throughout human history of tool-making and energy-use (fire), then catapulted by currency-based commerce, the human use of "tools and energy" ever more sophisticated have determined the outcome of the human condition. Allow me to elaborate further on this theme.

More than half of them have applied for safety reviews.

These sources will more than double by then.

First of 43 reactors goes into operation.

Find out the technology behind the designs.

Four years have passed since the Fukushima Nuclear disaster and the impact is still strongly being felt. Time for an update from Japan on the progress of changes in the Utility industry.

It's the company's first in the country.

Also medical management of a particular syndrome.

It's the largest solar project in Asia.

It'll generate 26.1m kWH a year.

Commercial operation to begin on 2019.

When Japan instituted the Renewable Energy Act (REA) in 2012, the stated policy was to encourage the development of renewable energy but to avoid the "boom and bust" cycles seen in other countries. Looking back, there is no question that the government created a booming market; particularly in solar. A reasonable question to ask now is whether we are about to see a bust?