Japan Follows the UK Down the Power Deregulation Rabbit-Hole

Britain’s experiment with privatization in the 1980s, followed by successive bouts of energy market reform throughout the 2000s and 2010s, became a global reference. Unbundling vertically integrated ...

Russia-Japan Energy Ties: Risky to Break, Too Small to Disrupt, Metals Are Key

In view of the events of last week, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered armed forces into Ukraine, we are providing an overview of the energy and commodity ties between Russia and Japan...

Hydrogen Drives Auto Sector Emission Cuts : Methanation Rollout Due to Start

CO2 emissions in Japan’s automotive industry, the nation’s top economic sector, have dropped for a fourth straight year. Now, to achieve greater cuts, some companies are looking into an overhaul of t...

Domestic Hydrogen Opportunities if Japan Tames Excess Renewables Volume

If Japan were able to turn all excess renewable energy into hydrogen, it could fill the tank of almost 3 million fuel cell vehicles. This is a calculation based on an idealized scenario, of course, b...

The Upcoming Rise of Grid-Scale Batteries in Japan

Japan's government recently hinted that it would seek to address the Achille's heel of renewable energy from intermittent sources, such as solar and wind, by further opening up the power grid to batt...