Nuclear’s Role in the Power Mix Hangs in the Balance

Tomari NPP as a Case Study In the last decade, Japan has restarted a third of its nuclear reactors. To hit the government targets for the sector within the power mix, and help play a role in cutti...

Energy Jobs in Japan: The Closing of Green and Digital Talent Markets

Japan NRG’s launch of its GxxD reports comes at a time when we as an executive search agency have noticed a clear closing of the gap between the Green and Digital talent markets. The GxxD reports ...

Molecules Fight Back: Gas Executives State Case Against All-Electron Future

Until recently, one of the top tenets of decarbonization was that moving away from fossil fuels will require a shift from energy systems based on molecules to those structured around electrons. Elect...

Funding Fusion: Japan Seeks to Stay Competitive in the Global Race

Until recently, nuclear fusion was a little-discussed topic in Japan. Widely seen as a technology with great promise but only a distant future, fusion has long been on the fringes of Japan’s clean en...

The Outlook for Japan’s Next Energy Strategy  

Only three years have passed since Japan wrote its Sixth Basic Energy Plan, but that short period has proven to be highly eventful and decisive for Japan’s plans to transition to clean energy. Now th...