The Sun Rises on Japan''s Solar-Powered Smart Communities
Hokkaido is the home to 87% of the largest solar plus storage projects in Japan. Hokkaido as well as the other neighbouring islands require storage batteries for PPAs, which seemingly has served as a catalyst to
Tokyo utilities put home battery storage in Japan''s
Several megawatt-hours of residential battery storage systems, typically paired with solar PV, are being installed in Japan on a monthly basis. This is largely due to concerns about losing power at home, given the seismic
Developer commissions first BESS in Japan to trade
A full interview with Mahdi Behrangrad, head of energy storage at Pacifico Energy will be published on this site for Energy-Storage.news Premium subscribers in the coming days. Energy-Storage.news'' publisher
Trina Solar Lands First Industrial Solar Energy Storage
Trina Solar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan''s Narashinrinsigen Hozenkousya (Nara Forest Resources Protection Company of Japan) to boost the penetration of its energy storage systems in
Economic analysis of household photovoltaic and reused-battery energy
Most of the current research on PV-RBESS focuses on technical and economic analysis. And the core driving force for a user with the rooftop photovoltaic facility to install an
Tokyo utilities put home battery storage in Japan''s power supply
Several megawatt-hours of residential battery storage systems, typically paired with solar PV, are being installed in Japan on a monthly basis. This is largely due to concerns
Research on Multi-Objective Optimization of Household Photovoltaic
With the integration of large-scale photovoltaic systems, many uncertainties have been brought to the grid. In order to reduce the impact of the photovoltaic system on the grid,
In wake of typhoons, Japan turns to residential energy
After recent typhoons ravaged Japan''s grid and disrupted power to almost 1.4 million customers, the government is encouraging homeowners to invest in storage systems, seeking to marry batteries with
Japan on track to hit 90 GW of PV capacity by end 2023
The Japanese solar market reached a cumulative installed PV capacity of 78.4 GW at the end of 2021, according to a new report from IEA-PVPS. Japanese analyst Izumi Kaizuka told pv magazine...
''Japanese market is ready for scale-up'': Gurin on its
Regular readers of Energy-Storage.news will likely be aware that grid-scale battery storage activity in Japan has shown early signs of being on an upward trend, with major Japanese players and foreign market entrants