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Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co. plans to expand its business in Japan and in countries such as Indonesia, Ryuichi Kageyama, general manager for the geothermal power business, said at a briefing today. It also plans to enter plant operation, ...

The nuclear disaster in Japan two years ago ignited a push to develop a new and clean energy industry, but those efforts are being stymied by a raft of regulations. As part of its policy goal to diversify supply, the government introduced a feed-in-tariff system ...

Solar photovoltaic is emerging as a major power source due to its numerous environmental and economic benefits. There has been a continuous development of PV in established markets (like Germany, Italy, the US and Japan), an exceptionally good growth ...

Honda has been leasing the FCX Clarity (pictured) for years and Toyota is working on a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle for 2015. Hyundai, BMW, Daimler, Nissan and General Motors are among the automakers also publicly active in readying H2 vehicles for the ...

Solar power is not usually considered a viable source of base-load electricity, but according to a study published in Environmental Research Letters ( ERL ), Japan could use solar power for base load because of the country's large-scale pumped ... together with the reported availability of pumped hydroelectric storage for the region – 7

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) plans to invest as much as 50 billion yen ($487 million) in renewable energy projects in Japan in the next five years, tapping demand for electricity produced from solar and wind-power generators.

Goldman Sachs plans to pour about Y300 billion ($2.9 billion) into Japanese renewable energy projects over the next five years, having determined that a long-term scheme here to buy renewables at fixed rates will provide a stable source of income, the Nikkei reported in its Monday morning edition.

Full-service future: A worker at a gas station pumps hydrogen into a fuel cell car in April in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture. The station, operated by JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., is the first in the nation to offer both gasoline and hydrogen fuel. | KYODO ...

The hard-to-predict flow of renewable energies compared to fossil or nuclear power is one of the many challenges of the energy transition which Chancellor Angela Merkel rang in in the days after Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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