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Japan’s Fusion Future – Significant Progress but Many Years Away
As nuclear power returns to the good graces of corporate and political leaders in Japan and the U.S., nuclear fusion is gaining more attention as a potential carbon-free energy source. The fusion ...
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As Japan Prepares for More Battery Power Trading, Hokkaido Is a Hotspot
Japan's power market will get a boost from a recent law change that elevates the status of storage batteries connected to the grid to a power generation business. This could spur major change to t...
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Coal, Gas, EVs and Net-zero: Japan Updates Energy Ties With Indonesia
One of Japan’s closest economic partners, especially in the energy sector, is Indonesia. The resource-rich, emerging Southeast Asian economy has long been a key supplier of coal and gas. Now these ti...
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Japan’s Power Market Regulation Failure? New Entrants Face Tough Test
Japan’s retail electricity market may be facing its greatest crisis since the end of World War II. Rapidly rising energy prices over the past six months have forced many electricity retailers into ba...
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Top Interview: JERA’s Head of Decarbonization Strategy
Japan NRG sat down with Takahashi Kenji, GM of the Decarbonization Promotion Section at JERA’s Corporate Strategy Dept. to discuss what Japan’s biggest thermal power utility and top importer of LNG t...
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