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Nuclear Power Overview: Which Reactors are in Line to Restart?
In the past year, only one nuclear reactor in Japan has received regulatory approval to restart. Even that does not guarantee that the facility will go online – a situation TEPCO knows all too well. ...
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What’s Next After Mitsubishi Corp’s Threat to Walk Away from Offshore Wind?
In 2021, Mitsubishi Corp won Japan’s first-ever public tender for large-scale offshore wind farms. Technically, it was picked due to offering the lower price. Many suspected that it was the trading h...
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Energy Jobs in Japan: 2025 Outlook
In the past 12 years, Japan’s renewable energy sector has grown rapidly, driven by policy changes after the Fukushima incident and strong incentives. Renewables now account for about 25% of Japan’s e...
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The Future of Japan’s Thermal Power Plants: A Precarious Balancing Act
To run or not to run: this is the dilemma facing Japan’s utilities as they weigh the future of their aging thermal power plants. With stricter environmental regulations and ambitious decarbonization ...
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Japan Looks to the Moon and Beyond to Tackle Resources Scarcity
Over the last decade, nearly $300 billion has been poured into equity investments in private space companies. The U.S. captured almost half of this, China close to a third. Japan, by contrast, has ba...
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