TOKYO, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Japan’s power utilities on Friday called for an increase in the volume of the country’s strategic liquefied natural gas (LNG) buffer (SBL) to ensure a stable fuel supply amid lingering risk of […]
Tokyo Electric Power Holdings is accelerating preparations for the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Niigata Prefecture. In the face of escalating fuel costs, restarting nuclear power stations is deemed crucial to stabilizing performance and […]
Japan’s monthly liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports increased in October compared to the same month last year, according to the provisional data released by the country’s Ministry of Finance. The country’s LNG imports rose by […]
We have frequently said that Japan‘s top government and central bank power echelons are nothing more than a grotesque circus of utter incompetence… … and the latest news out of that basket case banana republic […]
If you have not heard about the rise of geopolitics over the past year, where have you been hiding? So now I want to complicate your lives further and introduce you to its lesser-known but […]
LNG inventory held by Japan’s major power utilities stood at 1.56 million mt Sept. 24, down 1.9% from 1.59 million mt a week ago, data released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry showed […]
Japan’s Goto Floating Wind Farm Consortium has postponed the commissioning of the Goto City Offshore Wind Power Generation Project by two years following the discovery of defects in the floating structures to be used for […]
Kansai Electric Power’s plan next month to relaunch the last idle reactor at its flagship nuclear plant, capping a year-long series of restarts, will mark an energy shift in Japan with the sharpest drop in […]
Many governments in the Western world have committed to “net zero” emissions of carbon in the near future. The US and UK both say they will deliver by 2050. It’s widely believed that wind and […]
The BRICS economic bloc — comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — ended a three-day summit in South Africa on Thursday. It’s not often that a major international conference of national heads of […]
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