Month: July 2014
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Storage battery testing laboratory for batteries up to 2 MegaWatt hours
Electricity storage is crucial for the efficient use of renewable energy, especially solar and wind Japan plans to build world’s largest storage battery testing laboratory Wind farms and solar plants deliver electricity not continuously, but output depends on weather, wind and solar illumination conditions. Battery storage technology is necessary to store solar electricity produced during…
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Carlos Ghosn: the four global socio-economic mega-trends reshaping the auto industry
The Way Ahead; Trends Reshaping the Auto Industry Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault, Nissan and the Renault-Nissan Alliance The Renault-Nissan Alliance was started on March 27, 1999 with Renault acquiring 36.8% of outstanding Nissan shares, and with Nissan acquiring 15% of Renault later in 2001. Chronological details can be found in the EU-Japan…
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Nokia No. 1 in Japan! – Panasonic to sell mobile phone base station division to Nokia
Nokia strengthens No. 1 market position in Japan’s mobile phone base station market! Japan’s mobile phone base station market Japan’s mobile phone base station market is about US$ 2.6 billion/year and for European companies Ericsson and Nokia the most important market globally, although certainly also the most difficult one. Nokia is No. 1 with a…
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Japan iPhone AppStore: world’s top grossing!
iPhone AppStore-Japan “Top Grossing” games ranking of July 13, 2014: iOS App Store ranking of June 6, 2015 here. Google Play Store ranking of June 6, 2015 here. Japan game market report (398 pages, pdf-file): Bold figures show rankings in February 2014 No. 1 Puzzle & Dragons by GungHo No. 2 Monster strike (by Mixi)…
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Japan biomass electricity generation booming
Japan biomass electricity generation approaches 4 GigaWatt Renewables in Japan is not just solar… Looking superficially at Japan’s renewable energy sector, its easy to overestimate geo-thermal energy, and to underestimate biomass. Biomass electricity generation capacity is about 5 times higher than geo-thermal Currently the installed biomass electricity generation capacity is about 5 times higher than…
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Solar Japan: Japan approves a full Germany worth of renewable energy in a single month
Solar Japan: some of the world’s most attractive feed-in-tariffs In the single month of March 2014 Japan approved almost as much renewable energy projects as all solar ever installed in Germany Japan’s ten regional electricity monopoly operators traditionally kept renewable energy below 1% following an unwritten rule. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) kept renewable well…