Japan

Much has been learnt, but will nuke generation be revived in Japan?

Will electricity costs be suppressed soon?

Dismantling could take 30 years to complete.

Japan's energy mix is slowly transforming.

Its oldest reactor at Ikata NPP will be decommissioned in May.

There'll be TEPCO Holdings and 3 subsidiaries.

Balance is the key to achieve ambitious conservative energy goal.

Transmission issues have been begging for a solution.

USA and Germany comes at a far second and third.

2 reactors will come offline in Western Japan.

Full liberalisation is just around the corner.

Windzones are not the only worries players must think about.

292 turbines will be "old" by 2034.

Dreams of higher wind capacity are blown away.

At least 60 new plants are being planned over the next decade.

On occasion of a Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident book-release1 event organised by a well-educated, secluded community in the Santa Ynez Valley (California), I came upon the above three words during a book-signing. Throughout human history of tool-making and energy-use (fire), then catapulted by currency-based commerce, the human use of "tools and energy" ever more sophisticated have determined the outcome of the human condition. Allow me to elaborate further on this theme.