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Maxeon expands warranty for IBC modules to 'industry-leading' 40 years
items mounted on or after 1 January 2022, in pick markets in EMEA, Australia, Japan as well as Mexico. Maxeon stated the extended warranty had actually been
Feb 3, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Residential, C&I, SunPower, modules, IBC, Maxeon Solar Technologies, interdigitated back contact, warranty
Amazon Announces New Renewable Projects of 3.5 GW Across the Globe
will come up in the UAE of 2.7 MW and also in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan of over
Apr 22, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, clean energy, Amazon, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Energy, Andy Jassy, RE portfolio
Iberdrola signs its biggest green funding worth EUR1 B with Banco Santander
of projects in the USA, the United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and also Brazil. Banco Santander is a major player in
Apr 28, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Iberdrola, Banco Santander, green loan, Export Credit Agency, ECA
EDP inks 100MW global solar bargain
industrial units in Portugal, Spain, Italy, the US, China, South Korea, Japan, as well as Thailand. This is the largest distributed solar energy project
May 18, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Portugal, EDP, Europe, North America, Faurecia, Patrick Koller
Chalcopyrite solar cell for tandem applications, photocatalytic water splitting
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science as well as Technology (AIST) in Japan have actually produced a thin-film solar cell based upon chalcopyrite (CuGaSe2
Aug 3, 2022 // Technology, Japan, Asia, solar cell, efficiency, AIST
J-POWER energises 30-MW Hibikinada solar park in Fukuoka Prefecture now
Japanese generator Electric Power Development Co Ltd (J-POWER) has flipped the switch on the 29.99-MW Kitakyushu Hibikinada Solar Power Station, its largest photovoltaic project to date, bringing new utility-scale capacity to the country’s south-western Fukuoka Prefecture. Commercial operation began on 27 May 2025, a milestone the company says supports the national drive for greater energy self-sufficiency and decarbonisation. The ground-mounted array sits on about 355,000 m² of reclaimed waterfront within J-POWER’s Wakamatsu Operations & General Management Office in Kitakyushu City. Repurposing company-owned industrial land avoided green-field development and enabled rapid grid interconnection via existing transmission assets. With Hibikinada online, J-POWER’s domestic PV fleet now spans two sites and 31.998 MW of installed capacity. While J-POWER did not publish generation forecasts, a typical 15 % capacity factor for Kyushu would yield roughly 40 GWh of clean electricity a year—enough to cover the annual needs of about 9,000 Japanese households and cut roughly 18,000 tonnes of CO₂ versus the thermal mix. (Figures are estimates based on regional averages.) Hibikinada’s commissioning also demonstrates early delivery against the utility’s “BLUE MISSION 2050” transition plan, which prioritises ramping up CO₂-free power and hydrogen while phasing down coal. The roadmap calls for a step-change in renewables, with solar joining the company’s long-standing hydro, wind and geothermal assets as it pursues carbon neutrality by mid-century Beyond solar, J-POWER is constructing the 2-MW Oshio PV plant in Hyogo and is vetting multiple on-site PPA schemes with corporate customers. Offshore, it recently moved several gigawatts of fixed and floating wind into environmental assessment. Taken together, management says its renewables pipeline will “diversify earnings and insulate the balance sheet” as wholesale power markets tighten and green-premium contracts proliferate. Local officials welcomed the investment, noting that Kitakyushu—once synonymous with heavy industry—now positions itself as a “green innovation port.” The city hosts Japan’s first hydrogen-import terminal and is trialling carbon-capture shipping, making Hibikinada an anchor element in a broader low-carbon hub strategy. With transformer tests passed and the feed-in tariff secured, J-POWER’s engineers will spend the next three months on performance verification while a remote-sensing system begins feeding production data into the company’s nationwide renewables control centre in Tokyo.
Jun 2, 2025 // Plants, Japan, Asia, J-Power, Kitakyushu, Blue Mission 2050
Forescout Flags 35,000 Exposed PV Devices, Warns of Grid Vulnerabilities
and Greece together host about two-fifths of all reachable endpoints, while Japan and Portugal each harbour roughly one in ten.   Among individual
Jun 11, 2025 // Plants, Grids, USA, Greece, Germany, Europe, North America, cybersecurity, Forescout, vulnerabilities
AMPYR, hep Solar Forge €50m German Rooftop PV Growth Alliance
hep, the partnership broadens a portfolio that spans utility-scale projects in Japan and North America. For ADE, it expands a distributed-energy platform that
Jul 11, 2025 // Rooftop PV, Germany, PPA, Europe, AMPYR
Low Carbon Taps SmartestEnergy to Market 300‑MW UK Solar Power
through a specialist offtaker. In this case, SmartestEnergy—an arm of Japan’s Marubeni Corporation—will provide 24/7 balancing, forecasting
Jul 23, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, SMARTESTENERGY, Low Carbon, Solar UK, Power Purchase Agreement, Renewable Investment
DEWA to use solar to power new pumped-storage project
currently testing a 1.2 MW network-attached storage (NAS) system supplied by Japan’s NGK Insulators at the first section of the Mohammed bin Rashid Maktoum
Aug 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Solar to Fuel, Asia, hydrogen, Dubai Water and Electricity Authority, gigawatt-scale, Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
Trump ratchets up tariffs on Chinese products – including batteries
there is likely to be intensified demand for lithium-ion batteries from Korea, Japan and Poland – the nations with the largest manufacturing capacity after China
Aug 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Inverters, Tariffs, USA, Lithium-ion batteries, TESLA, Sungrow, Trump, Inverters, Huawei, North America, tariffs, PV cells, modules, Enphase, Flex, USTR, Kelly Speakes-Backman
Honda, GS Yuasa Collaborate for Lithium-Ion Battery Development
development of top quality as well as trustworthy battery systems. Hence, two Japanese conglomerates-- Honda Motor and GS Yuasa International-- have signed an
Jan 24, 2023 // Storage, honda, Lithium ion Battery, research and development, Electric Mobility, battery for EV, GS Yuasa International, Honda Motor, Innovation and Growth, joint venture company, Osamu Murao, Toshihiro Mibe
Nissan Licenses Lithium-ion Battery Technology to APB Corporation
firms, Tokyo-based APB strategies to develop a manufacturing facility in Japan that will certainly utilize Nissan's modern technology to make all-polymer
Apr 20, 2020 // Storage, Japan, Asia, battery, Nissan, Lithium ion, International, APB, Hideki Kimata, Nissan Lithium-ion APB
JA Solar Materials Bifacial Modules for Solar Project in Malaysia
JA Solar had actually won the order to supply its Mono PERC MBB modules for Japan's biggest single photovoltaic (PV) project. The solar energy plant will be
Aug 5, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Malaysia, JA Solar, pv modules, bifacial, Asia, Jin Baofang, International
Toshiba develops extra Japanese solar and also hydrogen
generation capability of 58.1 MW with U.S. module producer First Solar in Japan. The 31.9 MW Yatsubo Solar Power Plant will be built near Nasushiobara City,
Sep 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Japan, First Solar, Asia, hydrogen, PV Power Plant, Toshiba