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Aomori Proposes New Regional Rules for ‘Cohabitation’ with Renewables Projects
Last year, Aomori Prefecture’s incoming governor announced one of the most audacious plans for a regional tax on renewable energy projects in Japan, vowing to bring in a levy that would apply even to...
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PART ONE: Building Hydrogen/ Ammonia Supply Chains
After Japan’s government published the Basic Hydrogen Strategy in 2017, over 50 supply chain plans sprang up from business consortiums and municipalities. Now, new feasibility study launches are cont...
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Solving Logistics Barriers: Transport Solutions for Wind Farm Components
Japan’s ambitious plans to build a sizable and competitive offshore wind power sector largely rely on scaling up turbines in local projects. Yet, it is the construction and installation technologies ...
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Hydrogen’s Atomic Dreams: Japan Aims for H2 Produced With Nuclear Power
In early 2010, a High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in the town of Oarai, northeast of Tokyo, generated a temperature of 950°C that was enough to help produce hydrogen for 150 hours. Th...
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Energy Jobs in Japan: Investing in Education
Often we have written about the shortage of talent across various growth segments of the energy sector. This is a global challenge, with LinkedIn sharing in a report that the increase in job postings...
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