PART TWO: Hydrogen Hubs to Shine a Light on Japan’s ‘Green’ Future

Until recently, Japan’s hydrogen strategy has been largely colorblind. If anything, there’s been more emphasis on ‘blue’ hydrogen projects due to the speed and scale that they can deliver in comparis...

Aomori Proposes New Regional Rules for ‘Cohabitation’ with Renewables Projects

Last year, Aomori Prefecture’s incoming governor announced one of the most audacious plans for a regional tax on renewable energy projects in Japan, vowing to bring in a levy that would apply even to...

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...