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 Because it is so quiet and clean, the new electric digger is especially suited to inner-city construction sites.
Utility vehicles

Komatsu launches electric excavator - soon also in Europe

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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.

The world’s first Battery Tanker: What the first ship of the Power Ark 100 series will look like.
Maritime power transmission

Will battery tanker ships become part of the global power grid for the future? 

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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.

The solar park covers an area of approximately 186 acres, most of which is unused farmland.
Japan

Fukushima City: 100 MW solar farm

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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.

Coal power plant in Germany.
Global energy transition

Ammonia-coal co-firing strategy costly approach to decarbonization

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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.

This is the concept of the exchange battery that Yamato Transport and CJPT are working on.
Battery swap

Japan working on exchange batteries for electric trucks

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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.

Agriphotovoltaics

Luxor Solar KK partners with Next2Sun to realize first Agri-PV project in Japan

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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.

The solar power plant is located on a former golf course about 100 kilometers north of Tokyo.
Japan:

Juwi Shizen Energy connects 54 MW PV park to the grid

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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 provides access to Japanese subsidies for joint solar projects in Ethiopia.
Solar project financing:

Sharp gives access to Joint Crediting Mechanism in Ethiopia

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Sharp Energy Solutions Europe expands its PV business in Ethiopia, getting along with several millions of Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) subsidies for PV panels.

By visualising the feed-in forecast and the actual amounts of electricity fed into the grid, error rates can be minimised.
Virtual power plants:

Balancing out fluctuations in the Japanese electricity grid

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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.

juwi built the 2.9 MW Otaki Village solar farm on the site of a former ski slope in Nagano.
Japan:

juwi Shizen Energy builds solar park on ski slope in Nagano

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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.

Solar parks:

121-megawatt solar park constructed on former golf course in Japan

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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..

The USA lead the IHS Markit Global Renewables Markets Attractiveness Rankings.
IHS Markit:

USA the world’s most attractive market for renewables investment

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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.

After completion, the Azuma Kofuji Solar Power Plant will produce around 110 million kilowatt hours of climate-friendly electricity per year.
Solar power for Fukushima:

juwi Shizen Energy builds 100-megawatt solar park in Japan

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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.

The agreements forged between Sungrow and some major Japan-based companies, will power a large number of applications in the coming years.
Japan:

Sungrow bags 500 MW strategic agreements during PV Japan Expo

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During the recent PV Expo in Japan, Sungrow has signed 500 MW strategic agreements to supply PV inverter solutions.

The turnkey solar-plus-storage system integrates DC-DC converters, NCM batteries and BCP.
Japan:

Sungrow supplies solar-plus-storage plant

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Sungrow announced that a 21 MWh utility-scale solar-plus-storage project powered by the company in Hokkaido, Japan went commercially operational.

Climate policies still have to catch up, BloombergNEF states.
G20 Zero-Carbon Policy Scoreboard ;

Climate policies still not ambitious enough

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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 former golf course is just one of a number of projects that the joint venture have implemented in Japan.
Japan:

54-megawatt solar park on a former golf course

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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.

Kuwabarajo Mega Solar No.4 solar park is located in Izumi in the Kyushu Kagoshima Prefecture/Japan.

BayWa r.e. commissions its first Japanese PV farm

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BayWa r.e. has successfully completed its first solar park with 11.9 MW in Japan.