Tepco joint venture takes stake in New York state power project
A joint venture of a Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. unit and Chubu Electric Power Co. will participate in a gas-fired thermal power generation project in New York, the company has said. Jera Co. has acquired a 44 percent stake in the operating company, ...
Indonesian rights commission tells Japan to review power project
Japan is told to review a $4 billion thermal power plant project in Indonesia because human rights violations in the land acquisition process were uncovered.
Osaka Gas Co. may pull out of a thermal power project planned with Marubeni Corp. amid signs of nuclear restarts and increasing calls to reduce carbon dioxide from power generation. The Osaka-based company is considering giving up on its participation in the project in Ibaraki ...
Japan-Indonesia power plant to break ground in Java this month
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said Tuesday a project to build a $4 billion thermal power plant project funded by an Indonesia-Japan consortium will begin at the end of April. "God willing, we will go there for the groundbreaking at the end of this month," ...
Tepco likely to tie with Chubu Electric on thermal power plant project
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to grant Chubu Electric Power Co. negotiating rights as it hunts for a partner to build and operate a new thermal power plant, sources said Thursday. Tokyo Gas Co., another influential candidate, is expected to withdraw from the bidding for ...
Japan announces further Ukraine aid
Japan will release about ¥26 million in emergency funds to help evacuees from Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday. The aid will allow UNICEF and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to provide shelter, basic supplies and ...
90% of utilities fail to meet carbon dioxide reduction targets
Nine of the nation's 10 utilities failed to meet their self-imposed five-year targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 20 percent, an industry body said Monday. Their failure was caused mainly by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which forced them to revert to ...
