Cities outshine Tokyo on energy mix with ambitious goal for renewables
The government is preparing to announce its "best energy mix" for 2030, but its cost projections for nuclear power and renewable energy are raising eyebrows.
The Abe administration is placing far too much weight on coal in formulating the national energy policy.
Backed by green advocates, some U.S. conservatives push for solar
When Debbie Dooley, a tea party firebrand from Woodstock, Georgia, makes the case for solar power, she doesn't rely on the usual environmental talking points. She speaks of property rights, national security and competition in the free market. Former Republican Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. casts ...
Japan will be last G-7 country to make solar power economically viable
One by one, Japan is turning off the lights at the giant oil-fired power plants that propelled it to the ranks of the world's top industrialized nations. With nuclear power in the doldrums after the Fukushima disaster started in 2011, it's solar energy that ...
Lab photosynthesis begins to bloom
Toshiba and Panasonic are finding ways to mimic photosynthesis in the hopes of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by turning the gas into energy.
Reactor closures to test Abe's green energy pledges
Japan's plan to mothball at least five aging nuclear reactors highlights the challenge Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces as his administration debates how to replace lost electricity generation with power sources that are cheap, clean and safe. The decision announced by the reactors' operators last ...
Japan could triple power from renewable energy sources by 2030: ministry study
Japan has the potential by 2030 to triple the amount of electricity it gets from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, an environment ministry study showed. Clean energy — solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass and ocean energy — could account for 241.4 terawatt-hours ...
33 countries submit U.N. greenhouse gas reduction goals; Japan misses deadline
Thirty-three countries, which together produce 40 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, have submitted their emission reduction targets to the U.N. climate body, which could boost efforts to reach a new global agreement later this year to combat climate change. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary ...
Graduate students at Mie University have produced biofuel from the region's tangerines, saying the technique provides a use for unwanted fruit. They believe it could be promoted as a locally sourced form of renewable energy. The researchers at the university's Graduate School of Bioresources fermented ...
Government support for wind power may increase offshore capacity
Japan's bid to install more floating offshore wind capacity may be bolstered by the government's commitment to support the technology. The city of Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, and Toda Corp., a Tokyo-based construction company, were picked by the Environment Ministry to study community acceptance and environmental ...
Marubeni faces ship shortage, grid issues in offshore wind push
Marubeni Corp. is planning to develop more than five times the offshore wind power capacity currently installed in Japan as it moves aggressively into a poorly developed area of the country's renewable energy market. "If you want to do large-scale projects, it's offshore wind that ...
Britain's energy ministry has approved the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck offshore wind project, the world's biggest offshore wind park, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The project, located in the North Sea, is being led by Forewind, a consortium comprising SSE, RWE, Statkraft and ...
