Japanese construction equipment company Komatsu has launched the PC138E-11 excavator for rental, first in Japan and soon also in Europe. According to the company, the 13-tonne machine is particularly suitable for urban construction.
Japanese battery startup, PowerX, Inc. has unveiled the detailed design of the first-ever 'Battery Tanker'. The inaugural ship "X" aims for completion by 2025, with domestic and international field testing planned to commence in 2026.
Juwi Shizen Energy, the joint venture founded in 2013 between the German project developer Juwi and the Japanese developer of wind and solar parks Shizen Energy, has successfully connected the largest single project in its history to the grid in Fukushima City and has already handed it over to the operator.
Japanese utilities are exploring retrofitting their existing coal power plants to enable co-firing of coal with ammonia to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This is unlikely to become an economically viable path to reduce power sector emissions, a report of BloombergNEF (BNEF)states.
With standardised battery cassettes that are simply exchanged when they are empty, the project partners want to avoid long downtimes of commercial electric vehicles. But the swapping of batteries has even more advantages.
Next2Sun AG and Luxor Solar KK have entered into a cooperation agreement: Luxor Solar KK is the exclusive sales partner for Next2Sun’s AgriPV solutions in Japan.
Japan: Juwi Shizen Energy has connected a 54 MW solar park on challenging terrain topography to the grid. It is located on a former golf course.
Sharp Energy Solutions Europe expands its PV business in Ethiopia, getting along with several millions of Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) subsidies for PV panels.
In Japan, decentralised green power plants were combined to form virtual power plants. Using new technologies, the project partners have shown that a stable electricity grid can be realised even with volatile generators.
The 2.9 megawatt solar power plant in Otaki Village generates climate-friendly electricity for 600 households. juwi Shizen Energy Operation takes over operational management of the plant.
juwi Shizen Energy has received an order for EPC project for “Pacifico Energy Sanda Mega solar”, a 121MW (DC) solar park in Hyogo Prefecture by Pacifico Energy K.K..
As the Biden Administration aims to significantly increase federal investment in renewable energy under the American Jobs Plan, the USA already ranks as the most attractive market for renewables investment, according to IHS Markit.
The Azuma Kofuji solar farm is the largest EPC contract for the joint venture and generates electricity for more than 30,000 households. Commissioning is scheduled for spring 2023.
During the recent PV Expo in Japan, Sungrow has signed 500 MW strategic agreements to supply PV inverter solutions.
Sungrow announced that a 21 MWh utility-scale solar-plus-storage project powered by the company in Hokkaido, Japan went commercially operational.
The new G20 Zero-Carbon Policy Scoreboard assesses, ranks nations – and finds that despite impressive headline goals, climate policies are badly lacking ahead of COP26.
The solar power plant is located in Tochigi prefecture around 100 kilometres north of the Japanese capital of Tokyo. This is the largest single project of the Juwi Shizen Energy joint venture to date.
BayWa r.e. has successfully completed its first solar park with 11.9 MW in Japan.
