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...

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...

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...

Energy Storage Market Special – Hiring in the BESS Boom

Energy Storage projects are on the rise in Japan, with many players looking to capitalize on the METI subsidies announced in 2021, and the necessity to co-locate ESS with new renewable assets in cert...

Japanese Companies Eager to Spark the U.S. Energy Transition

Nearly a year has passed since the U.S. government approved the Inflation Reduction Act, and investments into the country’s energy sector are growing. Of all U.S. allies, Japan is in the forefront of...