Japan

Eight in 10 Japanese want to first phase out and then eliminate nuclear power altogether as a major source of energy.

Vietnam is brushing aside concerns crippling power shortages could hits its economy this summer.

A local thermal plant in Aichi will host an incinerator and waste disposal site for debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Local fishermen aare opposing the government-sponsored project to build a huge, floating wind-power installation in waters off Fukushima Prefecture.

Chubu Electric Power will buy 13 million tonnes of LNG for the year to March 2013.

A mammoth project to connect the national energy grids of five Asian and European countries takes a key step forward.

A Japanese government panel tasked with presenting policy options for the country's new energy plan are divided over nuclear power use.

TEPCO's hiring of a former Tokyo Metropolitan Government official to collect the capital's energy policy information placed it under possibe criticism.

Japan’s third largest mobile phone company decides that green is good.

TEPCO will indicate later in the month whether all the reactors at its two nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture will be scrapped.

Kyoto City has selected the Kyocera Group and SB Energy to build and operate a 4.2MW solar power plant in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

A group led by Marubeni Corp. will install three floating offshore wind turbines off the coast of Fukushima by March 2016.

Japanese utilities will start its annual negotiation with Australian coal producers next week.

Oerlikon Solar is being sold to Japan’s leading semiconductor equipment supplier, Tokyo Electron Ltd.

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Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp said on Thursday that it plans to lift by one-third its domestic production capacity of turbine generators to meet demand from fossil-fuel plants as nuclear power usage declines. Mitsubishi Electric said it is boosting production capacity to 60 generators in the year ending in March after investing 11 billion yen ($136 million) to expand its Kobe plant in western Japan. It said it plans to raise its annual production capacity to 80 generators in the future, including overseas production.