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The current Japanese laws do not require recycling or resource recovery of any used solar panels, although disassembly method of used solar panels for the purpose of reuse...

Natural gas, including LNG, is widely described as a "transition fuel" because it can reduce CO2 emissions compared with coal while being reliable, stable and affordable.

In July 2016, the Market Abuse Regulation of the EU came into effect. MAR extends the scope of the Market Abuse Directive, the predecessor legislation which it replaces, . . .

An in-house legal manager at INPEX in Tokyo discusses the challenges and rewards of managing a global legal team in the oil and gas sector, navigating Japan's evolving work culture, and supporting the company's energy transition initiatives. The conversation explores how a Singapore-based lawyer found his way to Japan and built a career at the intersection of energy law and international business.

On December 17, 2024, the 67th meeting of the Strategic Policy Committee of the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy...

Procedures began in April 2016 for the long awaited listing of the first infrastructure fund on the Tokyo Stock Exchange targeted at investments in renewable energy plants...

Japan's third long-term decarbonized power source auction reveals a strategic shift in the country's energy transition, with LNG-fired thermal power receiving significantly increased capacity awards while battery energy storage faces stricter requirements and reduced allocations. The results reflect heightened geopolitical considerations, including country-of-origin limitations on battery equipment and an emphasis on energy resilience, alongside measures to accommodate rising project development costs throu

While technologies for decommissioning solar panels for which the period of use has elapsed, and the reuse of disassembled materials thereof, have been recently developed, current laws of Japan...

2022年4月1日からの導入が決まっている認定失効制度の詳細設計を含む省令等の改正の概要の案（以下「概要案」といいます。）が、2020年9月7日、

The Japanese government passed the Hydrogen Society Promotion Act (the Hydrogen Act) on 17 May 2024, further to which the government is expected to implement two subsidy schemes commencing in the summer of 2024.

再エネ特措法の改正における 認定失効の制度.

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has proposed revisions to the price cap structure in Japan's balancing market that may materially impact the economics of battery energy storage system (BESS)...

Lately, global-level issues and the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that indicate the goals for solving these issues have been drawing more attention.

Lately, global-level issues and the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that indicate the goals for solving these issues have been drawing more attention.

Japan Renewable Alert 49でお伝えしたとおり、2022年4月1日（以下「施行日」といいます。）からの導入が決まっている認定失効制度の詳細設計を含む省令等のਟ

こうした中、経済産業省は、2020年7月22日の有識者会議において認定失効制度の案を示し、公的な場での同制度の詳細設計についての議論が開å

A summary of the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Procurement of Renewable Electric Energy by Operators of Electric Utilities in Japan.

Renewable Alert Letter 40でご紹介したとおり、2018年12月7日、海洋再生可能エネルギー発電設備の整備に係る海域の利用の促進に関する法律（平成30年法律第89号