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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
Americas to 'lead worldwide storage by 2025'
from the United States.
China will certainly place 2nd (150GWh), while Japan will rest 3rd (25GWh) by the end of the decade.
The stagnation in Asia
Apr 20, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Japan, Wood Mackenzie, China, Asia, North America, Dan Finn-Foley
India Says on the right track to Be a Solar and Green Hydrogen Powerhouse
well as meetings of the Quad team of countries-- which also includes the US, Japan and also Australia. "We'll be the major distributors of green hydrogen, green
Jul 12, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, green hydrogen
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
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
Mitsubishi Power working with US utility Entergy on hydrogen, batteries and also nuclear-plus-storage
power generation, energy storage as well as digital remedies group coming from Japan-headquartered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries just recently launched a simplified
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Japan, Asia, hydrogen, North America, Entergy, Mitsubishi Power, Paul Browning
ADB Approves $100 mn Loan for Development of Advanced BESS in Mongolia
by a give from ADB's High-Level Technology Fund, funded by the Government of Japan. The federal government of Mongolia will certainly offer USD 11.95 million
Apr 27, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, storage, ADB, Asia, BESS, Mongolia, International, loan, James Lynch
LCOE from huge range PV dropped 4% to $50 per megawatt-hour in 6 months
storage space projects are currently more affordable in Europe, China and also Japan than developing brand-new nonrenewable fuel source centers for taking care of
Apr 30, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, China, Australia, LCOE, Chile, South america, Brazil, Asia, Oceania, United Arab Emirates, North America, middle east, WORLD, United States
New technique to gauge cell voltages in functional PV modules
at Japan's Teikyo University have actually recommended a brand-new technique to quantitatively approximate voltage cells in functional PV
May 26, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Japan, pv modules, Asia
Global Pico Solar Market Report: Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Types & Market Analysis by Application
consisting of the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Brazil, etc. Trick areas
Jun 17, 2020 // Market Research, USA, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Asia-Pacific, Latin america, Europe, North America
Suggested requisition people eco-friendly titan Pattern Power must be turned down-- capitalist
possesses 28 eco-friendly power plants in the United States, Canada and also Japan.
Pattern's most current readily available outcomes-- its Q3 2019 upgrade,
Feb 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Japan, Canada, Asia, pattern energy, North America, m&a, cppib
Who has won contract for Indonesia’s controversial floating PV project?
go through a public procurement which matched up Masdar with seven rivals from Japan, China, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. No outcome has yet been announced by
Sep 30, 2019 // Floating PV, Masdar, tender, Asia, Indonesia, Marlistya Citraningrum, UAE, Cirata Dam, Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Archandra Tahar







