Japan Considers Boosting LNG Stockpiles via Overseas Hubs and Diplomacy

Japan has fewer than three weeks of gas supply on-hand, and even less when it comes to the reserve for power generation. For a country that relies on LNG for around 40% of its power, that’s a fine ma...

Enhanced Supply Chain and Ammonia May Return Japan as Hydrogen Frontrunner

As the global race for carbon neutrality intensifies, Japan’s hydrogen ambitions are once again in the spotlight. Japan surprised the world when in 2017 the government announced the Basic Hydrogen...

Japan’s Premier Travels to the U.S. Offering Green Deals

Next week, Prime Minister Suga will position Japan as on-board with plans to accelerate the transition to clean energy when he becomes the first overseas leader to meet U.S. President Biden in person...

Combined Heat & Power Market in Japan: a Chance to Help Old and New Energy

More than half of Japan’s primary energy goes to waste. As the world’s No. 5 consumer of primary energy seeks to tame its carbon emissions, turning this waste, which is mostly emitted in the form of ...

Japan Starts Deliberations on How to Price (or Tax) Carbon

Pricing of carbon is expected to have a considerable impact on Japan’s energy strategy today and in the future. The task of how to price carbon has fallen to a newly created 10-member expert panel, t...