Japan
Kyushu Electric restarts 500MW oil unit
Kyushu Electric Power had resumed normal operations at its 500 megawatt oil-fired Sendai No.2 unit after it was closed due to steam leaking from a boiler.
Kyushu Electric restarts 500MW oil unit
Kyushu Electric Power had resumed normal operations at its 500 megawatt oil-fired Sendai No.2 unit after it was closed due to steam leaking from a boiler.
Japan struggles to find new Tepco chief to revive firm
Tokyo Electric Power Co , the operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, is struggling to find someone to head the troubled firm, sources
Eurus turns to solar power
Japan's largest wind power developer is considering becoming a leading solar power producer.
Tidal energy added to Japan’s energy mix
Japan’s post-Fukushima search for new sources of electrical power has led it to tidal energy.
Power risks loom as Tepco shuts its last reactor
Tepco shut its last operating nuclear reactor for regular maintenance, leaving just one running reactor supplying Japan's creaking power sector.
Japan in danger of power shortage in nuclear-free summer
One of two remaining reactors in Japan shuts down today for maintenance drawing closer to a nuclear-free summer.
Geothermal plants eyed for Fukushima by 2020
Japanese firms are looking at building several geothermal plants in a volcanic zone in the area worst hit by last year's nuclear disaster.
Japanese public opinion overwhelmingly against nuclear power
Eight in 10 Japanese want to first phase out and then eliminate nuclear power altogether as a major source of energy.
Vietnam says enough power available this summer
Vietnam is brushing aside concerns crippling power shortages could hits its economy this summer.
Aichi Prefecture eyes thermal plant premises as quake waste disposal site
A local thermal plant in Aichi will host an incinerator and waste disposal site for debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Fukushima's offshore wind project opposed by fishing community
Local fishermen aare opposing the government-sponsored project to build a huge, floating wind-power installation in waters off Fukushima Prefecture.
Chubu Electric to buy more LNG in 2012/13
Chubu Electric Power will buy 13 million tonnes of LNG for the year to March 2013.
East Asian energy supergrid comes closer to fruition
A mammoth project to connect the national energy grids of five Asian and European countries takes a key step forward.
Gov't panel split on Japan's use of atomic power
A Japanese government panel tasked with presenting policy options for the country's new energy plan are divided over nuclear power use.
TEPCO under scrutiny for hiring ex-bureaucrat
TEPCO's hiring of a former Tokyo Metropolitan Government official to collect the capital's energy policy information placed it under possibe criticism.
Japan’s Softbank eyes 30 megawatt solar project
Japan’s third largest mobile phone company decides that green is good.
TEPCO to determine what Fukushima reactors to be scrapped
TEPCO will indicate later in the month whether all the reactors at its two nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture will be scrapped.
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