#Japan

The wind farm will be located on the island of Honshu.

The wind farm will be able to power 35000 homes per year.

JERA and Green Power Investment Corporation have begun commercial operations at the 112 MW Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore Wind Farm in Japan.

In the near future, transformers and solar panels from Japan will arrive in Ukraine, announced the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy.

UNDP and Japan, working closely with Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy and Ukrenergo, have procured and delivered two new powerful autotransformers to Ukraine.

Japan, Tokyo: Japan is working on a plan to improve the strength of its power grid through extensive expansion of renewables.

Held at the Okura Tokyo in Japan, the 2022 Nikkei Excellent Products and Services Awards ceremony hosted 110 representatives from 34 winning companies.

Hitachi Energy’s OceaniQ™ has won the “Awards for Excellence”, the highest-ranked award in “the 2022 Nikkei Excellent Products and Service Awards.”

Japan: Sumitomo Electric Industries has been awarded a contract from the Prysmian Group to supply 150 km of HVDC submarine cable for NeuConnect Interconnector.

Japan, Tokyo: Japan’s JFE Steel aims to partner with JSW Steel to produce electrical steel sheet for power transformers, JFE Holdings President Koji Kakigi said.

Rwanda, Kigali: The energy sector has gained a 30 MW substation, the New Gasogi Substation, worth over $23 M (Rwf 24 B).

Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced temporary suspension of ISO 9001 and IRIS certifications.

Japan, Tokyo: A Japan Railway-affiliated research institute has laid a 1.5 km superconducting transmission line — the world’s longest practical-use cable.

Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced on 10 August the acquisition of Smarter Grid Solution (SGS).

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation and Meidensha Corporation are set to develop gas insulated switchgear using natural origin gas.

Japan: A consortium led by Marubeni Corporation will start building wind farms off Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

Japan: ABB won an order for two blocks of frequency converter systems for the Higashi Shimizu project in Japan from Chubu Electric Power Co.

Japan, Tokyo: Tokyo Electric Power Holdings (Tepco) has been assigned with removing hundreds of thousands of utility power poles across Tokyo, so the visitors of the 2020 Olympics can enjoy uninterrupted views of its famous cherry blossoms and neon-lit streets.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has partnered with the government of Ghana and funded the construction of two substation projects in Tamale and Sunyani, which are currently underway.

Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will enter the global market for voltage-sourced converters (VSC) based high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems with a new HVDC verification facility to be built at its Transmission and Distribution Centre in Amagasaki, Japan by 2018.

China, Beijing: China’s Ministry of Commerce says it has imposed anti-dumping duties on steel imports from Japan, South Korea and the European Union.

As part of leadership succession planning, ABB has appointed Tauno Heinola as Managing Director of ABB in Australia, effective 1 October 2016.

Japan, Tokyo: Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi America, Ltd. announced the establishment of the Energy Solutions Division, which will expand Hitachi’s Energy Solutions Business in the North American market.

Japan, Tokyo: Japanese company Meidensha Corporation (MEIDEN) has signed a contract with Prime Meiden Limited (PML) and its shareholders to purchase additional shares and acquire a controlling stake in PML, an Indian power transformer manufacturer.

Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI), a Mitsubishi Electric’s subsidiary based in the North America, shipped its first high-capacity 765 kV power transformer to a U.S utility company American Electric Power (AEP) at the end of April.

Belgium, Brussels: Representatives from around 30 countries including China, Japan, Germany, India, the U.K. and the U.S. met with World Trade Organization, World Steel Association, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) representatives in Brussels to seek possible solutions to the huge overcapacity that fuels the steel crisis.

Japan, Tokyo: Japanese investment fund Polaris Capital Group announced it will purchase Yodogawa Transformer, an Osaka-based manufacturer and lessor of power substations.

The governments of Rwanda and Japan signed a financing agreement worth $18.4 million aimed at boosting electricity distribution networks in the City of Kigali, Rwanda.