Visitors learned how they can save energy in their homes, vehicles and companies with new products from the Smart Energy Exhibition in Tokyo. For example, JFE Engineering Corporation showed off its rapid charger for electric vehicle batteries. In the future it will be on highways and in shopping malls. via PressTV – Japan boasts energy Continue reading →
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Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). Switzerland has also agreed to a phase-out and Japan itself has agreed to phase out much of its nuclear capacity Continue reading →
The Smart Grid is meant to help consumers regulate their personal power consumption and to help utilities meet the projected power demands that will come with the growth in use of electrically-powered vehicles. Countries across the globe are investing in the technology necessary to implement the Smart Grid, including New Zealand, Germany, Spain, the United Continue reading →
The global renewable energy community will be watching Maui for the next few years, as officials test cutting-edge technology designed to allow utilities to incorporate more wind and solar power into their electrical grids. The multimillion-dollar Maui Smart Grid Project brings together a host of government agencies and private-sector energy companies from the United States Continue reading →
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has begun full-scale tests of smart grid and related smart-community technologies at the company’s production sites in Japan. The aim of the project is to develop and test products including commercial systems, equipment and solutions for annual sales worth 1.3 trillion yen (about 17 billion USD) Continue reading →
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. began full-scale tests of smart grid and related smart-community technologies at its production sites in Japan, aiming for annual sales of 1.3 trillion yen (about US$17 billion) by March 2016. The company is developing commercial systems, equipment, and solutions for implementing a smart grid. via ApplianceMagazine.com | Mitsubishi Conducts Full-Scale Smart Grid Testing in Continue reading →
Ever since the March 11 disasters exposed the nation’s dependence on conventional power sources and infrastructure, energy-efficient “smart city” projects have drawn increasing attention. So far Japan has bucked the global trend toward smart cities, which take advantage of IT-controlled power grids and renewable energy. But the quake and the subsequent nuclear crisis have persuaded Continue reading →
Every cloud has a silver lining, every disaster an opportunity. The devastation in parts of Japan as a result of the earthquake and tsunami six months ago is now ushering in a new age of renewable energy. PhysOrg reported this last week on three new renewable energy initiatives in Japan. One initiative will rebuild stricken Continue reading →
OKI Electric Industry, a Japanese telecommunications manufacturer, announces it has developed a wireless communication system designed for use in smart communities, smart houses and smart meters. The system is designed to use the 920-megahertz (MHz) communication band that’s scheduled to open in Japan in July 2012. via OKI Develops 920MHz Multi-hop by Wireless Watch Japan.
Dial the clock forward a decade or so, and Japan will be getting a lot more of its electricity from renewable resources and a lot less from nuclear power and fossil fuels — that is, if you go by recent government announcements proclaiming 2011 an energy watershed. But Yasuhiro Hayashi, one of Japan’s top experts Continue reading →
Picture life without traffic jams or petrol stations. Have your Smartphone automatically book your next doctor’s checkup. Tootle off to work on an electric bike through manicured parkland. Reserve one of the 1,000 homes in Japan’s Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town and such a low carbon, eco lifestyle is yours for the taking. via Japan’s Fujisawa Continue reading →
There has been a lot of talk about Japan peeling back on nukes and emphasizing alternative energy. A new policy, which Prime Minister Naoto Kan began to outline this week, would embrace solar and wind power and focus on innovation. In his speech on the matter, he used the word “challenge” seven times. In other Continue reading →
I have been reluctant to join the fray on what the recent Japanese disasters might mean to this or that issue. With active clients in Tokyo, these tragedies have had a personal effect, and my first thoughts have been for the personal well-being of these clients, their families, and their colleagues. So while the most Continue reading →
Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have agreed to collaborate on a smart grid system research project by the New Energy and Industrial Technology via Automotive World – Japan: Mitsubishi and NEDO in smart grid project.
Japanese electric companies plan to spend a total of 600 billion yen over the next decade to build smart grids, a technology essential to making optimal use of solar power. Given the output fluctuations inherent to renewable energy, stabilizing voltage in power distribution networks is key to accommodating wider use of solar power generation. via Japan Continue reading →
Hosting a seminar bringing together government and private sector leaders from the United States and Japan, the GridWise Alliance has announced the initiation of a close working relationship between the United States and Japan to develop and deploy the smart grid in each nation. “By sharing knowledge and ideas on how each of our nations and our companies Continue reading →
