As Japan Prepares for More Battery Power Trading, Hokkaido Is a Hotspot

Japan's power market will get a boost from a recent law change that elevates the status of storage batteries connected to the grid to a power generation business. This could spur major change to t...

Coal, Gas, EVs and Net-zero: Japan Updates Energy Ties With Indonesia

One of Japan’s closest economic partners, especially in the energy sector, is Indonesia. The resource-rich, emerging Southeast Asian economy has long been a key supplier of coal and gas. Now these ti...

Japan’s Power Market Regulation Failure? New Entrants Face Tough Test

Japan’s retail electricity market may be facing its greatest crisis since the end of World War II. Rapidly rising energy prices over the past six months have forced many electricity retailers into ba...

Top Interview: JERA’s Head of Decarbonization Strategy

Japan NRG sat down with Takahashi Kenji, GM of the Decarbonization Promotion Section at JERA’s Corporate Strategy Dept. to discuss what Japan’s biggest thermal power utility and top importer of LNG t...

Profile: NGK Insulators, Future Battery Superstar or Messy Outlier?

A shift to using weather-dependent energy sources like solar and wind requires ample and reliable power storage. So far, most attention has focused on lithium-ion batteries to fill that role, but the...