tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79690470756006710432024-02-18T23:08:54.759-08:00Renewable Energy in JapanTechnology and business trend of the renewable energy business in JapanSenryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-24366659675450623562015-06-22T20:54:00.000-07:002015-06-22T21:01:03.244-07:00No. 88: The world’s largest windmill for ocean generation is completed (June 22, 2015)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Technology:</span></span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
world’s largest windmill for ocean generation with a capacity of 7,000 kW was
completed and opened to the public on June 22. It will be installed 20 km offshore
Fukushima Prefecture early July. It is for floating ocean generation and
scheduled to start generation early December. The blade is 167 m in diameter. It
is built by <a href="http://www.mhi-global.com/index.html">Mitsubishi Heavy Industries</a>. The windmill is 190 m high and weighs
1,500 tons. The height including the floating part is about 200 m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world's largest windmill is </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">opened to the public on June 22</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Supported
by the government, companies and organization are energetically developing
renewable energy projects. The new windmill is the second windmill under the government’s
initiative. The first windmill was built by <a href="http://www.hitachi.us/">Hitachi</a>. It has a capacity of 2,000
kW and started generation in November 2013. The third windmill is scheduled to
start generation within 2015. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world's largest windmill has become </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the center of nationwide attention</span></span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-60650195261616300472013-10-29T23:39:00.000-07:002013-10-29T23:39:20.382-07:00No. 87: Increasing the purchase price to foster off-shore wind power generation (October 29, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The government
will increase the purchase price of electricity by wind generation next year to
correct overreliance on photovoltaic generation and foster off-shore wind generation.
The purchase price of off-shore wind generation will be 1.5 to 2.0 times higher
than that of electricity by land wind generation. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Purchase price of renewable energy per one kW/h</span> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2013</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2014 (Planned)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Photovoltaic generation</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(Capacity more than 10 kW)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">36 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">30-35
yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wind generation</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(Capacity more than 20 kW) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">22 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Increase the purchase price of off-shore
wind generation to 30-50 yen </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Medium-sized hydraulic generation </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">24-34 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remain unchanged</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Biomass generation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">13-39 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remain unchanged</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Geothermal generation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">26-40 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remain unchanged</span></td>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The government
introduced the system that asked electric power companies to purchase renewable
energy at a fixed price. Because it fixed the purchase price of electricity by
land wind generation at 22/kW, private companies hesitate to participate in the
off-shore wind generation business because off-shore wind generation costs more
than land wind generation to construct facilities. Unlike in Europe where wind
generation accounts for 20-30% in power generation, wind generation accounts
only for 0.5% in Japan. All renewable energies have a combined share of merely
1.6% in power generation. <a href="http://www.marubeni.com/global/">Marubeni</a> plans to construct a large-scale off-shore
wind generation plant with a capacity of 240,000 kW that will start operation
in 2016. The total investment is estimated at 100 billion yen. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marubeni plans to construct an off-shore wind generation plant </span></span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-68491613855505067072013-07-03T02:01:00.001-07:002013-07-03T02:04:43.417-07:00No. 86: Leading solar cell producers increase solar cell supply by 40% this year (July 3, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">Business Trend:</span></span></span></span></b></i><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Five
leading solar cell producers including <a href="http://sharp-world.com/">Sharp</a> and <a href="http://global.kyocera.com/">Kyocera</a> will increase solar
cell supply 40% over the previous year this year. On July 1 last year, Japan enacted the
system to purchase renewable energy, and demand for solar cell has been
increasing dramatically for the past one year. The market involved in
photovoltaic generation is estimated to increase 80% this year, and solar cell
producers cannot keep up with the rapidly increasing demand. The five leading
solar cell producers increased the total supply capacity 37% over the previous
year to about 4,700,000 kW in 2013, of which 90% will be shipped domestically. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Producer</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Supply in kW</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Increased rate over the previous year (%)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sharp</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.75in;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1,600,000</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.75in;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">21.3</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kyocera</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.75in;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1,000,000</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.75in;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">25.0</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Panasonic</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.75in;" valign="top" width="168"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">675,000</span></div>
</td>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">25.0</span></div>
</td>
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Frontier</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">930,000</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">86.0</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mitsubishi
Electric</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">500,000</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">85.1</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According
to a survey company in the U.S.,
Japanese photovoltaic generation related market will increase 77% over the
previous year to about 1,970 billion yen in 2013 and become the world’s largest
market, surpassing the Germany
and the U.S. Foreign suppliers are strengthening their sales activities in Japan. They had
23% share in 2012 ad plan to increase the share to over 30% in 2013. Because some
predict that the current booming solar cell business is going to create a
bubble, companies involved in the photovoltaic business are required to make a difficult
management decision. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Excessive
concentration on photovoltaic generation is observed in Japan mainly because purchase price of
photovoltaic generation in Japan
is about two times higher in Germany.
In fact, photovoltaic generation facilities account for 90% of all facilities
approved by the government for renewable energy generation. Initial investment
can be recouped in seven years, and generated electricity can be sold at the
same price for 20 years. Accordingly, large companies and investment funds
participated in the photovoltaic generation business one after another. As a
result, transmission networks suffer from capacity shortage in some areas. At
the same time, it is growing harder to secure land for photovoltaic generation
today. </span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-48042634579790347682013-06-26T17:48:00.001-07:002013-06-26T17:48:36.426-07:00No. 85: Japan’s largest off-shore wind turbine starts generation coming October (June 26, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A huge off-shore
wind turbine to be installed 20 km offshore of Fukushima Prefecture
was released to the public. It is currently the largest wind turbine ever built
in Japan.
It is a floating type wind turbine built by <a href="http://www.mes.co.jp/english/">Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding</a>. It will start operation coming October. It is 106 m high above
the sea when it is installed. The windmill is 80 m in diameter, and the output
is 2,000 kW. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Building
this off-shore wind turbine is part of the government-funded substantiative
experiment, and a total of 11 organizations including universities, trading
companies, and shipbuilding companies participate in this project. The project
team is scheduled to build the world largest off-shore wind turbine that has an
output of 7,000 kW in 2014. <a href="http://windeng.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ishihara/posters/2012_digest.pdf">Details of this project are available in English</a>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan's largest off-shore wind turbine is unveiled. </span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-39970992205756986172013-06-24T05:24:00.001-07:002013-06-24T05:24:15.121-07:00No. 84: Kyocera gets an order for its photovoltaic generation system from JA Zennoh (June 24, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://global.kyocera.com/">Kyocera</a> got an order for the construction
of its photovoltaic generation system in 80 locations with total power
generation capacity of 30,000 kW from the <a href="http://www.zennoh.or.jp/">National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations</a> (JA Zennoh) for 8,500 million yen as the order for 2013. The
company plans to start the photovoltaic generation business at Zennoh’s 500
locations in alliance with <a href="http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/">Mitsubishi Corp.</a> Kyocera will install 124,000 solar
panels and take care of everything involved in photovoltaic generation from
system design, construction, and maintenance. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kyocera has competitive edge in the
technology to put various shapes of solar panels, such as trapezoidal and
rectangular ones, with no space between them. Because Zennoh’s plants and livestock
barns have various shapes of rooftops, they reportedly outdid Chinese makers
that competed with low-priced products. Kyocera plans to increase the production
of solar panels 25% over the previous year in 2013. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photovoltaic generation on the </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rooftop of a livestock barn</span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-47393810372169562932013-06-09T05:10:00.000-07:002013-06-09T05:10:40.547-07:00No. 83: A new back sheet for solar cells from Fujifilm (June 9, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.fujifilm.com/">Fujifilm</a> will put its newly-developed sheets
used for solar cells on the market. The sheet is the so-called back sheet
attached to the back of a solar cell to protect it from heat, humidity, and
ultraviolet. It oxidizes should it be exposed to air and water, but the company
increased the durability of the sheet by mixing special compound with polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) and applying its own unique technology to blow up film. The
new sheet has a life of 30 years, three times more durable than the existing
products on the market. It is priced at 20-30% higher than the standard back
sheet. According to <a href="http://www.epia.org/home/">European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPA)</a>, solar cells
with a total generation capacity of 31 million kW were introduced worldwide in
2012, making the cumulative output reach 100 kW. The introduction is expected
to increase 55% from 2012 to over 48 million kW in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fujifilm had no way but to decrease the
share of film business considerably because of the growing popularity of
digital cameras. Actually, film sales account for less than 1% at present as
compared with about 20% in 2000. The company is busily occupied with launching
new business operations based on the technology it has accumulated. Late last
year, it started to ship the <a href="http://www.fujifilm.com/news/n090507.html">EXCLEAR</a> designed for the touch panel of smartphones
and tablet PCs. In addition to higher precision, it can be mounted on the
next-generation display because it is bendable. Fujifilm is also marketing the label
to prevent counterfeiting that allows printed images and literal information to
be seen only through the special filter. </span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-67844911148966745582013-06-07T17:05:00.001-07:002013-06-07T17:05:43.275-07:00No. 82: Developing raw materials for biofuel (June 7, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.kobelco-eco.co.jp/english/">Kobelco Eco-Solutions</a> discovered a new species of euglena that has two times more fat
inside than euglena gracilis z stock, which is the currently most promising
euglena, and successfully cultured it in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/">University of Tsukuba</a>. The company confirmed that the new
euglena proliferates fast if it is cultured by effluent containing organic
substances and purifies water. It is supposed to have the same degree of combustibility
as coal. The company wishes to put a system from the culture of the new euglena
to the refinement of biofuel toward 2018. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.khi.co.jp/english/index.html">Kawasaki Heavy Industries</a> established a technology to produce bioethanol from rice
straws at a low cost. The new technology processes rice straws only by hot
water. Because it does not use sulfuric acid, it can reduce capital investment.
The new technology makes it possible to produce bioethanol at 40 yen per liter.
The company has been conducting the substantiative experiment for the past five
years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-59112466610980921462013-05-24T23:02:00.001-07:002013-05-24T23:02:43.168-07:00No. 81: Japan’s largest biomass generation plant scheduled for 2016 (May 25, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://sfc.jp/english/">Sumitomo Forestry</a> decided to participate in the biomass generation business and
construct a biomass generation plant toward 2016 with an investment about 14
billion yen. The plant has a generation capacity of 50,000 kW, exceeding the
currently largest plant that has a capacity of 33,000 kW. All generated
electricity will be sold to <a href="http://www.hepco.co.jp/english/index.html">Hokkaido Electric Power</a>. The company reckons that about
200,000 tons of wood and thinned wood will be available annually for generation
in the company-owned forest where the plant is to be constructed. The company
expects sales of several billon yen per year. It has company-owned forests across
the country with a combined area of 42,000 ha, and the area it owns is the fourth
largest in Japan, following <a href="http://www.ojiholdings.co.jp/english/index.html">Oji Paper</a> whose forests total more than 100,000 ha,
<a href="http://www.nipponpapergroup.com/e/index.html">Nippon Paper</a>, and <a href="http://www.mitsui.com/index.html">Mitsui and Co.</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Fuel
cost accounts for 60% in biomass generation. Procuring fuel at a low price is a
critical factor for the success of biomass generation. Sumitomo Forestry plans
to import sucked orange of palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia when the plant
is in short of fuel. At the same time, it plans to use coal for 25% of all fuel.
Even if coal is used for 25%, the carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by
75%, the company reckons. In Japan, photovoltaic generation has a capacity of
about 6,700,000 kW, wind generation 2,500,000 kW, and biomass generation 2,100,000
kW. However, photovoltaic generation is increasing its share lately because its
sells for 4 yen higher per hour than biomass generation. Actually, photovoltaic
generation has a capacity of 1,330,000 kW out of 1,400,000 kW that started
operation between April 2012 and January 2013. It has become necessary to
develop the diversification of renewable energy because photovoltaic generation
greatly depends on weather. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A biomass generation plant</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-46251797407251478292013-05-19T18:52:00.000-07:002013-05-19T18:52:11.988-07:00No. 80: Power generation that utilizes wind and tidal current together (May 20, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.modec.com/index.html">MODEC </a>will start the substantiative experiment of a floating generator that generates
electricity with the help of wind and tidal current together this fall. The floating
generator is moored at the seabed with the chain. The floating structure is
about 30 m in diameter. It has a windmill with the vertical rotation axis on
the sea surface and a rotating waterwheel that rotates receiving tidal current
under the sea surface. The windmill is 47 m high, while the waterwheel is 16 m
downward from the sea surface. The generator has a generation capacity of 500
kW. The power generation technology that utilizes wind and tidal current was
developed for the first time in the world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
company is scheduled to finish installation toward the end of this August and
start power generation this fall. In 2014, it plans to sell electricity to the
local electric power company. It wishes to lease the generator to local fishers.
Although an agreement with fishers on the installation, it strenuously looks
for ways of coexistence with them. The project is funded by New Energy and
Industrial Technology Organization (NEDO). <a href="http://www.modec.com/jp/business/skwid/pdf/skwid.pdf">Please click here for further details of this power generation system.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A floating power generation system</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-47669046163175292702013-04-30T18:40:00.002-07:002013-04-30T18:40:56.976-07:00No. 79: Realities of the wind generation business in Japan (April 30, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A large
wind turbine about 100 m high floating on the sea 20 km offshore of Fukushima
Prefecture will start generating electricity on September 9 this year. This is
a national project participated by such shipbuilding companies as <a href="http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/index.html">Mitsubishi Heavy</a> and <a href="http://www.mes.co.jp/english/">Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding</a>. The technology they accumulated contributed
to setting a structure weighing several hundred tons afloat on the sea.
Offshore wind turbines running in Europe are fixed
on the seabed, whereas Japanese offshore wind turbines are floating structures.
Japan
wishes to take the lead in the floating offshore wind generation. It seems that
offshore wind generation helps Japan
establish a distinguished position in wind generation. </span></div>
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plan to start independently. It takes long to clear the environmental assessment.
<a href="http://www.jpower.co.jp/english/index.html">J-Power</a> plans to construct a wind generation plant with a generation capacity
of 19,500 kW in Aomori Prefecture scheduled to put into operation in March
2015, but it takes longer than anticipated to clear the environmental
assessment. Although <a href="http://jwpa.jp/index_e.html">Japan Wind Power Association</a> asked for a shorter procedure
to clear the environmental assessment, it currently takes three to four years
to obtain approval from the government. As a matter of fact, total capacity of
the wind generation plants approved by January 31 this year is 570,000 kW, less
than one tenth of the total output of photovoltaic generation. As of January 31
this year, only 37,000 kW is generated by wind generation, as against 1,329,000
kW by photovoltaic generation. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wind
generation offers 8% internal rate of return that is 2% higher than photovoltaic
generation. In addition, the former has higher generation efficiency than the
latter, and it is easier to build a larger wind generation plant to build a
large photovoltaic generation plant. Nonetheless, environmental assessment is a
big issue to clear. The Fukushima
offshore wind generation project mentioned above will start operation in only
18 months after the project was approved. This is because it is an offshore
plant and because the government took the strong initiative. The land wind
generation plant with a capacity less than 7,500 kW is not subject to
environmental assessment. This may be one of the solutions for land wind
generation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The system to purchase renewable energy like sunlight and wind was put into effect 10 months ago, and renewable energy seemed to have a bright future. However, various problems have come to the fore. Some operators of mega solar builders plan to start construction later, while securing a quota from the government before the closing date. They apparently anticipate a price decrease of materials necessary for the construction. Government officials of the related ministries are glum about the strategy of the builders. The purchase price of photovoltaic generation reduced 10% beginning in April this year. The builders who got a quota before April can sell electricity for 42 yen per kW for 20 years. The current purchase price in Japan is more than two times higher in Germany. It is quite natural that many companies rush to participate in the mega solar business.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The number of mega solar plants planned as of the end of January 2013 was 1,024, and the total generation capacity is 5,750,000 kW that is equivalent to that of six nuclear power generation plants. Total investment is estimated at 1,500 billion yen excluding land price. However, another risk was brought to the surface. One of Japan’s electric power companies declared that they could purchase only one quarter of the electricity that the mega solar operator plans to sell because of the shortage of transmission capacity. In addition, places available for mega solar construction will face shortage soon or later. Because the purchase of renewable energy will be transferred to the electricity bill consumers receive every month, there is a fear that the burden consumers have to bear will increase dramatically. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Japanese mega solar market remains very promising despite the above facts, CEO of <a href="http://www.gestampsolar.com/">Gestamp Solar of Spain</a> said. His company invests 90 billion yen in Japan. And Chinese investors are keeping close watch on the Japanese mega solar business as an investment with low risk and high return. It seems vital to work out measures to prevent bubble burst in the mega solar business. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.nipponpapergroup.com/e/index.html">Nippon Paper </a>will launch biomass generation totally dependent on unused woods like thinnings. The company will build equipment inside its plant and start selling electricity to Kyushu Electric Power in March 2015. The equipment to be built is a fluidized bed boiler with a capacity of 5,000 kW. The annual output will be about 40 million kW, and investment will be 3.0 billion yen. The company expected to get annual sales of 1.3 billion yen from the mass generation. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The fuel for the biomass generation is totally wood chips made purely of unused woods, and Nippon Paper’s plant will consume about 71,000 tons of unused woods per year. The company tries to increase the generation efficiency by circulating both wood chips and air together inside the boiler. A total of 20 million cubic meters of unused woods are produced annually, whereas 10 million cubic meters of recycled woods are produced annually in Japan. Despite this fact, the application of unused woods is not widespread because it takes much to recover unused woods. Promoting the applications of unused woods is important because leaving unused woods in forests is said to deteriorate ecosystem. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Japanese government promotes biomass generation dependent on unused woods. The purchase price of electricity generated by unused woods is set at 33.6 yen per kW, 2.5 times higher than the purchase price in the case of recycled woods. Demand for such paper products as print sheets and cardboards has been decreasing, and it is estimated to decrease 1.5% from the previous year to 27,350,000 tons in 2013. To prepare for the decreased demand, paper companies are strenuously increasing the generation capacity. In fact, the paper industry has the second biggest generation capacity of 1,700,000 kW, following the power generation industry. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ojiholdings.co.jp/english/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Oji Holding </span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The company sells electricity at its plants around the country, and it currently has a total capacity of 150,000 kW. It has already introduced a biomass boiler that uses unused woods.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ojiholdings.co.jp/english/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nippon</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Paper</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The company has already introduced biomass generation at its 12 plants nationwide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The company has already introduced a gas cogeneration system in its plant. It has also introduced photovoltaic generation equipment in four plants inside Japan. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-14227169857903575642013-04-04T18:58:00.000-07:002013-04-04T19:11:51.390-07:00No. 76: A Japanese electric power company goes to Indonesia for geothermal generation (April 5, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.kyuden.co.jp/en_index.html">Kyushu Electric Power</a> will start the geothermal generation business in Indonesia in
alliance with <a href="http://www.itochu.co.jp/en/">Itochu</a>. A special purpose company (SPC) will be founded, and each
of the two companies invests 25% in the SPC. Total cost of the project is
estimated at 100 billion yen, 70-80% of which will be financed by <a href="http://www.jbic.go.jp/en/">Japan Bank for International Cooperation</a>. Revenue from power selling will be used for
reimbursement. The construction will start in April 2014. The generation
capacity will be 330,000 kW, and the planned geothermal power station will be
the largest one in Indonesia.
Three generators will start operation on after another toward the end of 2016,
and all generated amount will be sold to the Indonesian state-run electric
power company PLN. Indonesia has about 150 active volcanoes and the
second-largest resources for geothermal generation following the U.S. The
Indonesian government has laid down a plan to increase the capacity of
geothermal generation seven times over the level in 2012 to 9,500,000 kW in
2025. </span></div>
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Electric Power is currently operating a geothermal generation plant with a
capacity of 110,000 kW in Oita
Prefecture. It has an
integrated technology in geothermal generation, and one of its subsidiaries is
excellent in technology to explore the resources and extract steams effectively
and efficiently. Demand for electric power development has been growing bigger in
Asia and Africa, and Kyushu Electric Power
plans to develop foreign market with its accumulated technology and know-how. Three
Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Heavy, Toshiba, and Fuji Electric, has 70% in
the world geothermal generation power plant market. It is likely that they can
get orders for equipment in the Indonesian project. It has become an important
issue for electric power companies how to develop the market in developing
countries that have growing power demand. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-58274704677712802232013-02-28T20:44:00.000-08:002013-02-28T20:44:32.105-08:00No. 75: Shakeout of solar battery material producers is in progress (March 1, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Business
trend:</span></span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Japanese
material producers are in the process of shrinking the solar battery business greatly
due to the rapidly decreasing prices of Chinese products. Three Japanese
companies including <a href="http://www.nmm.jx-group.co.jp/english/">JX Nippon Mining & Metals</a> decided to dissolve their
joint venture in the silicon business and allocate extraordinary loss of about
13 billion yen. Chinese silicon producers participated in the Japanese domestic
market in 2010 with low-priced products. The market price of silicon is 15
dollars per ton, less than one tenth of the price in 2008. The joint venture
decided to withdraw from the business because it cannot work out solutions to
recover the profitability. <a href="http://www.tokuyama.co.jp/eng/index.html">Tokuyama</a> will also record net loss of 41 billion yen
due to its stagnant silicon business in fiscal ending March 2013. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.epia.org/home/">European Photovoltaic Industry Association</a> reported that worldwide generation capacity
of photovoltaic generation increased 40% over the previous year to exceed 1,000,000
kW at the end of 2012. The increased generation capacity is about 30 million kW
that is equivalent to the generation capacity of 30 nuclear power plants. Worldwide
production capacity of silicon is expected to become 450,000 tons due to the participation
of Chinese producers, while demand for silicon remains at about 200,000 tons. As
if often the case, lots of companies rush into profitable products to decrease
the profitability drastically, and small- and medium-sized producers are wiped
out from the market. Do not pursue economy of scale to compete with inexpensive
products. Strenuous efforts to streamline production to reduce production cost
are not rewarded. The only solution to recover profitability in the market
dominated by inexpensive products is to increase the competitive edge and
launch products that can be sold at higher prices.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Worldwide
capacity of photovoltaic generation is increasing quite rapidly</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-47372228161910637722013-02-26T01:18:00.000-08:002013-02-26T01:18:02.430-08:00No. 74: Solar battery shipments grow 1.9 times in 2012 (February 26, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.jpea.gr.jp/08eng01.html">Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association</a> announced that domestic shipments of solar
batteries grew 90% over the previous year to about 2,470,000 kW (generation
capacity base) in 2012. Since the system that requires electric power companies
to purchase power generated by renewable energy at a fixed price was enacted in
July 2012, an increasing number of companies participated in the easily installable
photovoltaic business. As a result, solar battery shipments for the
nonresidential market grew 4.3 times to about 830,000 kW in 2012. Low-priced
imported solar panels have been increasing the presence in the mega solar
market. They grew three times to about 780,000 kW, accounting for 31.4% of
total solar panel shipments for the mega solar market. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Power that
is generated but cannot be consumed by residence is subject to purchase in the
residence market. Shipments of solar batteries for the residence market increased
48% over the previous year to about 1,640,000 kW. For the period between
October and December 2012, domestic shipments of solar batteries increased 2.5
times to over 1,000,000 KW. They increased 60% over the period between July and
September 2012, showing that demand for solar battery increased at an
accelerated pace after the introduction of the purchase system. Whereas solar
batteries for residence grew 44% over the same period of the previous year,
those for nonresidential purposes grew as much as seven times. </span><br />
<br />
</div>
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of solar batteries are increasing remarkably</span></div>
<br />Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-26690543138934820122013-02-10T01:53:00.002-08:002013-02-10T01:53:43.989-08:00No. 73: Photovoltaic generation on the rooftop of an apartment building (February 10, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.leopalace21.com/">Leopalace21</a>,
one of Japan’s leading rental housing companies, will start the photovoltaic
generation business using the rooftops of its 7,000 apartment buildings with an
investment of about 30 billion yen. The company plans to recover the investment
with the income from power sales in 20 years. Total generation capacity is
100,000 kW. The company will establish a special-purpose company. With the
approval from the apartment owners, the company starts to install solar panels
on the rooftops beginning in April. The installation is scheduled to end by
March 2014. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Each
apartment owner gets 3% of the expected revenue from power sales calculated in
advance on the basis of the area of the rooftop and the amount of sunshine.
Leopalace21 plans to establish multiple special-purpose companies, in which it
will invest 5% each. The total output 100,000 kW can satisfy power demand of
33,000 households. <a href="http://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/english/index.htm">The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy</a> told that the
largest mega solar would be constructed in Hokkaido by <a href="http://mb.softbank.jp/en/">Softbank</a>, one of Japan’s
leading mobile carriers, that has a capacity of 110,000 kW as of October 2012.
The project launched by Leopalce21 is close to the Softbank’s project, though
it is a decentralized system. </span><br />
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Photovoltaic
generation using the rooftop of </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">an apartment building launched by Leopalace21</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-66748951376246281872013-01-14T17:27:00.001-08:002013-01-14T17:27:57.303-08:00No. 72: Another step to the spread of fuel-cell vehicles (January 15, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.noe.jx-group.co.jp/english/">JX Nippon Oil and Energy</a> that operates 30% of nation’s gas stations started to
consider building 40 stations for supplying hydrogen across the country by 2015
when Japanese automakers are scheduled to launch fuel-cell electric vehicles in
full swing. In January 2011, a total of 13 companies in the fields of
automotive and energy set a target of building 100 hydrogen filling stations
throughout Japan by 2015. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">At this
moment, substantiative experiments are under way in more than 10 hydrogen
filling stations. The company is operating three hydrogen filling stations in
Tokyo, and will start to operate two stations that supply both gasoline and
hydrogen coming February. The fuel-cell vehicle is the front-runner of the
next-generation eco-car. A fuel-cell passenger car can travel 700 km per
charge, and it takes only three minutes for charging that is about the same
time required to fill gasoline to capacity of a gasoline-driven car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A
hydrogen filling station operated by Honda</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> in the Tokyo Metropolitan area</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-10757034916338308812013-01-08T19:42:00.000-08:002013-01-08T20:22:00.198-08:00No. 71: Introduction of wind power generation increases for the first time in the past three years (January 9, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://jwpa.jp/index_e.html">Japan Wind Power Association</a> announced that the capacity of all new wind power plants
scheduled to start operation in fiscal 2012 ending April 2013 will increase 8%
over the preceding year to 92,000 kW, recording a year-on-year increase for the
first time in the past three years. The system to purchase power generated by
renewable energy at a fixed price started in July 2012. The estimated introduction
of photovoltaic generation was 2,000,000 kW in 2012. That is, the introduction
of wind power generation was less than one twentieth of the introduction of
photovoltaic generation. This is because it takes longer to put a wind power
plant into operation than a photovoltaic power plant. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Although
the introduction of wind power generation recorded an increase for the first
time in the past three years in 2012, it is one third of the level of introduction
in the three years before 2010 when the government subsidized one third of
initial investment for the introduction of a wind power plant. The total
generation capacity of wind power generation as the end of 2012 was 2,610,000
kW. It is still a long way to go for the substantial spread of wind power generation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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power generation does not spread as fast as expected. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2012, only 49 wind power
plants started operation. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-9505680027053159392013-01-06T17:44:00.000-08:002013-01-08T22:38:33.080-08:00No. 70: Japanese general trading companies participate in the renewable energy business worldwide (January 7, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/">Mitsubishi Corp. </a>will invest 50% of the photovoltaic power plant run by the <a href="http://www.edf.com/the-edf-group-42667.html">EDF group</a> of
France. Starting with this investment, the company plans joint management of
the group’s photovoltaic power plants and offshore wind power plants. It wishes
to strengthen the alliance with the EDF group and get know-how necessary to
expand renewable energy business worldwide. At the same time, it plans to ask
the EDF group for cooperation for its renewable energy projects.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.mitsui.com/us/en/index.html">Mitsui</a>
has decided to participate in the renewable energy business project by the
Canadian subsidiary of </span><i><span lang="EN-US">GDF Suez</span></i><span class="st"><span lang="EN-US"> S.A. of France. <a href="http://www.marubeni.com/">Marubeni</a> has already allied with a
Danish company in the offshore wind power project, and the two companies are
now running an offshore wind power plant in Great Britain. <a href="http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/english/">Sumitomo Corp. </a>and <a href="http://www.itochu.co.jp/en/">Itochu</a> invested in the world’s largest wind generation plant that GE of the
U.S. operates in the state of Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/2008/__icsFiles/artimage/2010/12/17/cjj_4_08/ja_080731_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.mitsui.com/jp/ja/release/2008/__icsFiles/artimage/2010/12/17/cjj_4_08/ja_080731_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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photovoltaic generation plant in Spain </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">in which Mitsui invested 30% </span></div>
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<span class="st"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-64947905954388924172012-11-18T18:55:00.001-08:002013-01-08T22:38:56.333-08:00No. 69: A new wave power generation system to be launched in 2016 (November 19, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/index.html">Mitsubishi Heavy </a>is developing a new wave power generation system that sets a structure on
the sea side of a breakwater. The structure is like a box, and air inside the
structure is pushed out when a wave comes into the structure to run a turbine
of the generator. Because the structure can bring in waves coming from diagonally,
the system has two times higher generation efficiency than the existing system.
As a result, the company opened up the road to reduce the generation cost to 40
yen per kW. Although the total power output depends on how many units are built
on a breakwater, it is possible to get a generation capacity of 1 mega watt to
supply electricity to 200-300 households. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.mhi-bridge-eng.co.jp/en/">Bridgeand Steel Structure Engineering</a>, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy, will install
a demonstration system in 2014 to start the substantiative experiment using a
breakwater in the Tohoku district. The construction cost is about 400 million
yen per unit. The system is basically designed for isolated islands where
energy cost is rather high. The Japanese government reckons that the
introduction of renewable energy in 2012 will increase 12% over the previous
year to about 2,500,000 kW on an output basis thanks to the system introduced in
July this year to purchase electricity generated by renewable energy at
favorable fixed prices for 10-20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Generation cost, feature, and problem of major
renewable energy types</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Type</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ocean</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Photovoltaic</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wind</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 92.45pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Geothermal</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Generation cost per kW/h</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Aiming for less than 40 yen </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">33.4-38.3 yen (Residence)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">9.9-17.3 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(On land)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">9.2-11.6 yen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Feature</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Possible to generate throughout the year</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Easy to install and operate</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Possible to generate regardless of time</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Possible to generate throughout the year
if hot water is available</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Problem</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cost and waterproofing technology </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Impossible to generate at night </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Generates low-frequency sound</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Available places are mostly inside a
national park</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nikkei.com/content/pic/20121106/96959996889DE6EAE2EBE7E1E2E2E2E7E3E3E0E2E3E08698E0E2E2E2-DSKDZO4809532005112012TJ2000-PN1-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://www.nikkei.com/content/pic/20121106/96959996889DE6EAE2EBE7E1E2E2E2E7E3E3E0E2E3E08698E0E2E2E2-DSKDZO4809532005112012TJ2000-PN1-6.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
concept of Mitsubishi Heavy’s wave power generation system</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nippon.com/ja/files/a01203_ph041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://www.nippon.com/ja/files/a01203_ph041.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
image of Mitsubishi Heavy’s wave power generation system</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-61559202964768869482012-11-17T19:33:00.000-08:002012-11-17T19:33:15.314-08:00No. 68: Constructing mega solar plants on the water surface of lakes and ponds (November 17, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.west-gr.co.jp/">West Holdings</a>, one of Japan’s leading solar panel producers, will construct mega
solar plants on the water surface of lakes and ponds in alliance with <a href="http://eng.lsis.biz/">LSIS</a> that is
a Korean company specializing in equipment related to power generation. The
company will import LSIS’s equipment and float waterproof generation facilities
on water surface. It plans to construct 10 mega solar plants with a total generation
capacity of 20,000 kW in the initial year. The competition to purchase lands
suitable for power generation by renewable energy has been intensifying with the introduction of
the system to purchase power generated by renewable energy in July this year,
and West Holdings plans to focus on water surface left unutilized. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the
initial stage, the company will construct generation facilities with a
generation capacity of 1,000-2,000 kW in the regulation pond of an industrial
complex in the Tokyo metropolitan area and in the pond in a park with a water
surface area of 118,000 square meters in Osaka. They are scheduled to go into
operation next year. The advantage of constructing a mega solar on the water
surface is that the temperature of the panels installed on the water surface
hardly increases, making it possible to increase output. At the same time,
photovoltaic panels shut sunlight to avoid the plague of blue-green algae.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://kaw.stb.s-msn.com/i/4C/B18D27235B9762A5C674DA85309EEB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://kaw.stb.s-msn.com/i/4C/B18D27235B9762A5C674DA85309EEB.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A mega
solar plant constructed in an ex-salt field in Shikoku </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">by <a href="http://www.japanasiagroup.jp/english/">Japan Asia Group</a> </span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-7800609437643735772012-11-15T23:42:00.000-08:002013-01-08T22:39:17.391-08:00No. 67: Japanese biogas generation technology goes to Southeast Asia (November 16, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.kubota-global.net/">Kubota</a>
will start the biogas generation business in Southeast Asia in alliance with
palm oil producers in Malaysia and Indonesia. The company will build plants to
generate electricity using methane gas recovered from the effluent and joint
companies will sell electricity. Because Malaysia and Indonesia introduced an
electricity purchase system, Kubota tries to get orders with the emphasis on
its technological advantage. Kubota’s system is called the membrane methane
fermentation system. Kubota will sell this system with a generator. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With the
help of its original membrane technology, the system can recover methane gas
effectively to increase the output by 20%. It is estimated that an average palm
oil plant can get a revenue about 130 million yen per year by selling electricity. Kubota already
secured an order of 300 million yen for a biogas generation plant from Malaysia
for the first time. Malaysia and Indonesia combined have more than 1,000 palm oil
producers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://giweb.kubota.co.jp/back_number/shokuhin/images/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://giweb.kubota.co.jp/back_number/shokuhin/images/3.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kubota’s
membrane methane fermentation system </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In <a href="http://www.emec.org.uk/">European Marine Energy Center </a>located offshore of </span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-US">Orkney Islands of Scotland, <a href="http://www.khi.co.jp/english/index.html">Kawasaki Heavy</a> plans to conduct
substantiative experiments of ocean current power generation in 2014. Kawasaki will install equipment
on the seabed 50 meters below the surface of the sea. Propellers 18 meters in
diameter each rotate by dint of ocean current to generate electricity, and the
direction of propellers will be automatically controlled responding to come and
go of the tide. Special treatment will be given to the propellers to avoid malfunction
due to adhesion of marine organisms. The company is confident that the
technology it has accumulated in posture control and corrosion protection will
be of great help to the development of ocean current power generation that
offers constant generation. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="st"><span lang="EN-US">Japan has the world sixth
largest country in terms of the area of territorial waters and excusive
economic zone (EEZ). Because it has lots of potential for utilizing ocean
energy, the <a href="http://www.env.go.jp/en/">Ministry of the Environment</a> plans to increase the generation
capacity of ocean energy to 1,500,000 kW in 2030. Some estimate that Japan’s
total wave energy amount to 36 million kW that is equivalent to the generation
capacity of more than 30 nuclear power plants. The critical point is how to
collect generated electricity.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="st"><span lang="EN-US">A research team made up of
researchers from the University of Tokyo, IHI, Toshiba, and Mitsui Global
Strategic Studies Institute is developing an underwater floating ocean current
generator that generates electricity by dint of the black current. Blades 40
meters in diameter each of a generator floating in 50 meters below the surface
of the sea level rotate and generate facing the black current. <a href="http://www.otpolicy.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/index.html">Ken Takagi of<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span>the University of Tokyo</a> says “An ocean current always flows to the same
direction, allowing for stable generation.” </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="st"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mes.co.jp/english/">Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding</a> is developing a wave power generator to make the best use of waves
that come to and go from Japan of a wide range of frequencies. It will generate
electricity by dint of up-and-down motions of small buoys floating on the
surface of the sea. The company plans to commercialize the generator toward
2016. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">An image
of the tidal wave generator being </span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-3821911969817736092012-10-09T06:28:00.004-07:002013-01-08T22:39:51.866-08:00No. 65: Present status of offshore wind generation (October 9, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Experiments
of offshore wind generation are under way in several locations. Offshore wind
turbines being constructed under the initiative of <a href="http://www.nedo.go.jp/english/index.html">the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)</a> offshore of Chiba Prefecture will
start operation in October. Local governments are developing projects to foster
offshore wind generation in alliance with universities and companies. <a href="http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/index.php">Kyushu University</a> is operating its self-developed “wind lens turbine” that has a cover
around the blades. The original turbine installed on a hexagon base collects
wind and makes the wind velocity 1.5 times stronger. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Unlike
in Europe, the floating wind farm anchored in the seabed with chain is dominant
in Japan because water depth is mostly over 50 m off Japan. The <a href="http://www.env.go.jp/en/">Ministry of Environmen</a>t plans to increase the output by offshore wind generation 270 times
from the current 30,000 kW to 8,030,000 kW that is equivalent to the output of
eight nuclear power plants by 2030. Developing the technology of the floating
wind farm is critical to achieve this ambitious target. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
crucial issue of offshore wind generation is high construction cost because it
costs more than three times than a wind generation plant on land. Some offshore
wind generation projects use concrete instead of steel for part of the floating
body to reduce construction cost. Kyushu University is planning to connect
three triangular floating bodies instead of using one hexagon body to reduce
construction cost, and install solar batteries to achieve a total output of
3,000 kW. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
purchase price of power by wind generation is fixed at 23.1 yen whether or not
it is generated offshore or on land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The
floating offshore wind generation system </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">developed by Kyushu University</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969047075600671043.post-30579869143286462762012-09-21T17:34:00.000-07:002013-01-08T22:40:06.756-08:00No. 64: Small hydraulic generation market grows more active (September 22, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
small hydraulic generation is defined as the hydraulic generation with a
capacity of less than 1,000 kW. It is suitable for generation using a brook or
an agricultural irrigation channel. It is a dispersed power system with a
relatively stable output. <a href="http://www.seabell-i.com/e/">Seabell International</a> is actively expanding business
in alliance with <a href="http://www.osakagas.co.jp/en/index.html">Osaka Gas</a>. The company plans to increase sales quantity six
times by offering a lease system without front-end payment. Farmers collaborate
with <a href="http://ene.osakagas.co.jp/support/energy/ebj/index.html">Energy Bank Japan</a>, a subsidiary of Osaka Gas, to conclude a contract with
a leasing company. They pay the lease fee with revenue from electric power
selling, and split the balance. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.n-koei.co.jp/english/">Nippon Koei </a>has participated in the small hydraulic generation market with its
medium-sized generators that have a capacity of 400 kW, though it specializes
in large-sized generators with a capacity between 2,000 and 5,000 kW. With the
introduction of the system to purchase power generated by renewable energy,
power generators can sell power to electric power companies for 20 years. The selling price of power
generated by hydraulic generation with a capacity less than 200 kW is set at
35.7 yen per kW, that with a capacity between 200 and 1,000 kW is set at 30.45
yen per kW, and that with a capacity between 1,000 and 30,000 kW is set at 25.2
yen per kW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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