Understanding the Complexities and Nuances of Japan’s Power Markets 

From the 1950s until the mid-1990s, Japan’s electric power sector was dominated by 10 regional companies that were responsible for all power generation, distribution and sales. Since then, the nation...

Japan’s First Long-Term Decarbonized Power Auction a Boost for Bess, Foreign Investors

Grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) were the biggest winners in Japan’s first ever long-term decarbonized power auction, which was held in January, showing that investments in the innova...

Energy Jobs in Japan: Building a Local Brand

Anywhere in the world, building an attractive corporate identity and employer brand is key to attracting top level talent. In Japan, and by no means unique to this market, is the need to develop a lo...

Converting CO2 to Cement: Japan Seeks to Decarbonize Hard-to-Abate Industries

In April, the Ministry of Environment released its 2022 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory report to the United Nations, which, in a world first, included CO2 removal by concrete products. The report sai...

How Japanese Steel Is Turning Green

Part II : Reducing the Problem to Its Core If Japan’s fully behind a hydrogen economy, then it’s even more fully behind a net-zero shift in steelmaking. For all the headlines around the ‘hydro...