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...

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 ...

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...

Japan Wary of Energy Policy Upheaval as Trump Returns

President Donald Trump’s swift rollback of climate policies during his first week in office marks a stark departure from his predecessor’s agenda. In ordering a pullout of the Paris Agreement and pri...

Japan Must Tame Wind Power Costs; Data May Use 10% ofAll Power by 2030: Yergin

𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑙 𝑌𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒. 𝐴 𝑃𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑧𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒-𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆&𝑃 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙, 𝑌𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦,...