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Japan's Kansai Electric to buy into 211-MW Finnish wind project
Japanese electric utility Kansai Electric Power Co Inc has agreed to buy a minority stake in the firm holding the 211.4-MW Piiparinmaki wind project in central Finland.
read more... 28/04/2020
Japan lines up Russian Arctic oil investment
Japan’s government and its state-owned oil group have emerged as leading contenders for a stake in Rosneft’s $157bn Arctic project.
read more... 12/12/2019
NTT to spend 600 billion yen on own grids for power business
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has decided to build its own power grids. Japan's largest telecom company plans, beginning in the year ending March 2021, to sell electricity from storage batteries at its roughly 7,300 office buildings around the country, mainly to hospitals and factories.
read more... 12/11/2019
Mysterious Gas Reserve In East China Sea Floor Could Be A 'Ticking Time Bomb'
Seismologists and other researchers have detected a huge reservoir of gas off the coast of Japan underneath the waters of the East China Sea. This pocket may be one of several around the globe where conditions are similar. But the big questions are: Is the gas mostly carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4)? And, why is it potentially a “ticking time bomb”?
read more... 03/10/2019
Daily (27.09.2019): European carbon prices jumped by 1.7% on Thursday amidst bullish technical signs
Crude oil prices were mixed on Thursday. Brent crude inched up by 0.6% to $62.74 a barrel, following Donald Trump’s affirmation that a deal between China and U.S. could happen sooner than expected. Meanwhile, sluggish economic data in major European economies and Japan, as well as a faster-than-anticipated recovery of Saudi output after the recent attacks sent WTI futures 0.1% down at $56.41 a barrel on Thursday.
read more... 27/09/2019