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Municipalities Seek More Control Over Renewable Energy Projects
Last year, a small town in western Japan shocked the renewables industry when it called for a new tax on solar projects calculated on the area that panels occupy. The idea was eventually quashed by t...
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Japan Seeks To Lead in the Energy Future Without Abandoning Present Ties
Within a single day last week, Prime Minister Kishida was pitching oil-rich Middle Eastern states on opportunities to invest with Japan in green energy and also delivering a video message of support ...
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Fukushima’s Water Release: Controversy and Economic Implications
Although the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in March 2011 was the result of the most devastating earthquake and tsunami ever recorded in Japan, the fact remains that the country’s cre...
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JAPAN’S CLIMATE TECH: GOVT PLANS INDICATE GROWTH POTENTIAL
(This is Part 2 of a two-part series about Japan’s climate-tech/ clean-tech sector. Part 1 appeared in the May 29, 2023 edition of the Weekly) The primary vectors stipulated in the government’s ac...
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Round 2 Offshore Wind Tender Atones for Furor from Round 1
More than 18 months have passed since Japan announced the results of its first tender for offshore wind farm licenses. That first experience, in December 2021, ended with an uproar among the many fir...
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