Japan

MoU with infrastructure firms to analyze gas production and export from Queensland

Japanese corporation Toshiba stated it has developed a new covering approach that boosts the power discussion performance of huge, polymer film-based perovskite modules to a brand-new high.

A group of scientists led by Professor Yabing Qi in the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and also Modern Technology Grad University (OIST) in Japan have actually imaged the atoms at the surface of the light-absorbing layer in a new type of next-generation solar cells, made from a crystal material called metal-halide perovskite.

On the internet retail large Amazon has actually signed a 10-year company power purchase agreement (PPA) in Japan with Mitsubishi Corporation for the outcome from 22MW of solar PV plants.

SB Energy, a renewables platform of Japanese empire SoftBank Group Corp (TYO:9984), has signed a long-term power acquisition agreement (PPA) with a subsidiary of fellow-Japanese trader Mitsui & Co Ltd (TYO:8031), protecting an off-taker for a part of the 418-MWp Juno solar farm in Texas.

Solar PV maker Next Energy and trading and investment company empire Marubeni are partnering to recycle used photovoltaic panels making use of blockchain technology, as part of a program supported by Japan's Ministry of the Environment.

Renewables financier Hudson Sustainable Group LLC said on Thursday it has actually closed a JPY-1.4-billion (USD 12.8 m/EUR 10.9 m) mezzanine car loan facility with Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc (TYO:8593).

Tesla is partnering with Japanese business to build a power storage center utilizing its rechargeable battery in Hokkaido in northern Japan to aid stabilise the power system.

Japan's Orix Bank Corp has actually prolonged JPY 3.1 billion (USD 28.2 m/EUR 24.2 m) in green financial obligation for the construction of a 45-MW solar park in Niigata prefecture recommended by residential designer Renewable Japan Co Ltd

A group of scientists led by the Nanomaterials Research Study Institute at Kanazawa University have shown that the stability as well as performance of specific photovoltaic panels can be significantly enhanced by using cesium iodide (CsI) intercalation modern technology. This work might aid make solar cells more affordable with other renewable energy resources.

Japanese oil business Eneos Corp, an unit of Eneos Holdings Inc (TYO:5020), introduced this week it will invest in a 121-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Hyogo prefecture.

Solar cells, which transform sunshine to electrical power, have actually long been part of the international vision for renewable resource.

The project at Sanda in Hyogo prefecture will certainly be mostly improved the website of an old golf course

Japanese building and construction and civil engineering firm JDC Corporation (TYO:1887) introduced that it held a revolutionary event for a 12.6-MW solar park in Japan's Miyazaki prefecture.

Japanese renewables programmer Shizen Energy Inc has begun the commercial operation of some 3 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capability in Kagoshima prefecture.