Japan

Kyocera has inaugurated the first of two PV facilities built in a joint venture with SB Energy.

Kansai Electric began generating electricity from the mothballed 450 megawatt oil-fired Kainan No.2 unit despite restarting a unit of its nuclear power plant.

A private asset manager will take charge of the fund, which will receive an initial capital of US$19 million from the Tokyo Metropolitan government.

Japan’s continuing effort to diversify away from nuclear energy has led it to develop liquefied natural gas as an alternative.

Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of the Fukushima crisis, according to two prominent seismologists who  warned against restarting two reactors.

Japan's latest feed-in tariff has the potential to generate US$30 billion by 2016 for the local economy.

The new feed-in tariffs to be implemented by Japan in July will increase household electricity bills by 1.2%.

Toshiba will start constructing the biggest PV project in Japan totaling 100MW with an investment of US$379.6 million in the Minami Soma coastline.

Japan’s drive to stave-off a massive power shortfall this summer takes another route.

Japan’s feed-in tariff or FIT is one of the highest in the world.

Hitachi expects its nuclear power business to more than within a decade due to growing overseas demand and post-disaster work at Fukushima atomic plant.

Japan’s new and generous feed-in tariff offers the world’s solar power developers a chance to profit in a stagnant market.

When completed, the solar project will have a combined output capacity of over 100,000 kilowatts.

Japan’s idled nuclear reactors will once again produce electricity despite widespread public opposition to nuclear energy.

Japan has approved the resumption of nuclear power operations at two reactors despite mass public opposition.

The restart of Japan's two reactors could spark a rally by uranium-mining shares, which have languished since the March 2011 disaster.