Power Retailers Struggle To Keep the Lights on as Law Change Adds to Market Woes

This year’s electricity spot prices are around 60% higher on average than a year earlier. The increase is playing havoc with more than just household and business power bills. It’s also upending seve...

Great Miscalculations: The Impact of Anre’s Error in Available Thermal Capacity

On Sept 15, the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy reported that its data on available thermal power capacity this decade was way-off. The agency had underestimated the total capacity scheduled t...

Japan’s Fusion Future – Significant Progress but Many Years Away

As nuclear power returns to the good graces of corporate and political leaders in Japan and the U.S., nuclear fusion is gaining more attention as a potential carbon-free energy source. The fusion ...

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...