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The so-called feed-in tariff for solar could fall to as low as 37 yen (41 cents) per kilowatt hour for 20 years from a current rate of 42 yen per kilowatt hour, according to Yugo Nakamura, a Tokyo-based analyst with New Energy Finance. A committee appointed by ...

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. said Monday that it will begin a three-year feasibility study in June for geothermal power generation in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan. The company, known as JAPEX, will dig a well in an area near Musadake volcano in the ...

Email Print. Ryukoku University, Kyocera Solar, Plus Social and The Trans Value Trust have announced that they are working together to install Japan's first social contribution mega-solar power generation plant, provisionally named Ryukoku Solar Park.

Officials in Japan have announced plans to build world's largest wind farm off the coast of Fukushima. - JOIN THE DISCUSSION

Global Logistic Properties, the provider of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil, today announced that it will install solar panels on the rooftops of 22 properties in Japan. GLP has qualified for the new feed-in-tariff scheme recently introduced by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, under which property owners who meet certain criteria are able to install solar

In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has decided to build the world's largest offshore wind farm to replace the crippled nuke plant. The country plans to build a total of 143 wind turbines on platforms 16 kilometres off the coast of Fukushima by 2020, which is home to the stricken Daiichi nuclear reactor that hit the headlines in March 2011 when it was damaged by a severe

The wind farm will generate 1 gigawatt of power once completed, and is part of a national plan to increase renewable energy resources following the post-tsunami shutdown of the country's 54 nuclear reactors. Only two have since come back on-line, the 'New ...

In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has decided to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm to replace the crippled nuke plant. The country plans to build a tota...

In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has decided to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm to replace the crippled nuke plant.

In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor disaster, the Japanese government has opted to build the world's largest offshore wind farm. As you may remember, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan in ...

Instead of sinking capital into getting damaged reactors back online, government officials have instead floated a proposal to replace them with what could be the world's largest wind farm. 143 turbines would be situated 16km off the Fukushima coast and ... With cracks in America's wind power plans already beginning to show thanks to the recent fiscal cliff fiasco, Japan's consideration of replacing a nuclear energy source with a renewable is big news

Instead of sinking capital into getting damaged reactors back online, government officials have instead floated a proposal to replace them with what could be the world's largest wind farm. 143 turbines would be situated 10 miles off the Fukushima coast ... With cracks in America's wind power plans already beginning to show thanks to the recent fiscal cliff fiasco, Japan's consideration of replacing a nuclear energy source with a renewable is big news

In a move that could symbolize the nation's turn away from nuclear energy and an embrace of renewable power, Japan is drafting plans to build a large offshore wind farm off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. According to reports, the wind power project would comprise 143 wind turbines built on platforms 10 miles off the coast of Fukushima

(Phys.org)—Officials in Japan have announced plans for building the largest wind farm in the world, ten miles off the coast of Fukushima – site of the nuclear disaster that followed the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island nation in 2011. Projections call for developing a wind farm capable of producing 1 gigawatt of power