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...

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 ...

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...

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...

TEPCO Unit Pitches Bitcoin Mining as a Way to Roll out More Renewables in Japan

The following is a condensed version of a report that was published as part of our company’s GxxD series, which examines the nexus between decarbonization (GX) and digitalization (DX) trends in Japan...