IRENA: 2016 record year for renewables, bioenergy
A new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency finds that 2016 was a banner year for addition of global renewable energy...
KEPCO, Mitsubishi create JV for 200-MW biomass project in Japan
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co Inc (TYO:9503), or KEPCO, plans to convert the 375-MW second unit of its Aioi power station from heavy...
Micro biomass CHP plant fired up in Fukushima, more planned
Six years after the natural disaster and the reactor catastrophe in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, Gov. Masao Uchibori inaugurated a...
Power Producers Scour Forests as Burning Wood Gets Big
With almost 70 percent of its land covered by forests, Japan is leading a drive to return to wood as a source of cleaner energy. Recently...
Coal, Biomass Seek More Equal Footing in Japan Power Generation
IHI Corp., a Japanese maker of heavy equipment, is promoting a method to increase the ratio of woody biomass that’s able to be burned at...
