A bitcoin startup plans to join Japan’s growing ranks of power utilities and accept the cryptocurrency as payment for electricity charges, promising bills four to six percent cheaper than the competition. ResuPress Inc., a Tokyo-based startup that runs a bitcoin exchange and storage service ...
The industry ministry plans to form a market for trading environmental values of electricity generation using renewable sources and nuclear power in an effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions, officials said. The market will enable power companies as well as households with solar panels ...
Reform of the nation's electricity business is far from complete.
Russian and Iranian firms began work on Saturday on two additional reactors at Iran’s nuclear power plant on the Gulf coast at Bushehr, the project manager said. The plant has been a bone of contention with Iran’s Gulf Arab neighbors, even after a deal ...
Residents on the Russian island of Sakhalin face restored electricity supplies on Saturday, three days after an outage plunged most of the island into darkness. A power transmission line failed in the early hours on Wednesday, leaving 12 districts without electricity, including the towns ...
Miniature nuclear power plants could help solve Britain’s looming power crunch, rather than the delayed $24 billion Hinkley project, companies developing the technology say. Small modular reactors (SMRs) using current or new technology would be able to produce around a tenth of the electricity ...
The Ikata nuclear plant began generating electricity Monday, ahead of its planned reconnection to the grid on Sept. 7, operator Shikoku Electric Power Co. said. The plant in Ehime Prefecture is one of only two nuclear power stations currently operating in Japan, despite the ...
Consumers may think they're getting a good deal by switching electricity suppliers following the liberalization of the industry. They're not.
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. has begun offering a type of insurance intended to ease the concern of hot spring operators about the impact of new geothermal power stations. Developers of geothermal power projects can now buy an insurance policy that covers ...
A monkey sparked power cuts across Kenya after it fell onto a transformer at a power station, the country’s largest electricity company said Wednesday. The primate survived its brush with death although vast swathes of the country were left without power for several hours ...
Kansai Electric Power Co. is in tie-up talks with companies including Panasonic Corp. and Joshin Denki Co. on the power-retailing sector, informed sources said Thursday. Kansai Electric plans to enter the power retail market in the Tokyo metropolitan area, the home turf of Tokyo ...
The government has decided not to ask households and companies to reduce electricity consumption this summer — the first since the March 2011 disasters. With power supplies expected to top demand this summer, the government reached the conclusion for the first time since the ...
