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Three German energy giants claim a €19bn compensation for nuclear closure
German utility giants E.ON, RWE and Vattenfall and government clashed at a court hearing over the country's controversial decision to phase out all nuclear plants by 2022 aftermath the dramatic incident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011.
read more... 16/03/2016
Five companies will construct coal power plants in Fukushima
Five companies have joined forces to construct two 540MW coal-fired power plants in Fukushima.
read more... 21/08/2015
Fukusima is turning to offshore wind power
Japan has officially announced a huge floating wind turbine of 7 MW, the largest offshore turbine in the world, located about 12 miles off the coast of Fukushima, in the port of Onahama.
read more... 23/06/2015
Fukushima to become 100% renewable powered by 2040
Fukushima’s prefecture, three years after the major earthquake which resulted in a nuclear disaster, has announced that they wish to be totally renewable powered by 2040. The idea is seen as a positive step to embrace renewable energy in Japan, where the national government remains pro-nuclear, despite a survey found that that 53 percent of Japanese people wanted to see nuclear power phased out gradually, while other 23% wanted it immediately done with.
read more... 06/02/2014
Germany’s “Energiewende” is not as successful as thought
Currently, Germany is in the process of completely transforming its energy sector at a pace unmatched by other industrialized nations. It describes the country's politically supervised shift in direction from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. The very term "Energiewende" is some 30 years old, but nowadays, the term is primarily associated with a fundamental policy shift in the country after the 2011 nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan. In the wake of Fukushima, Berlin oversaw the immediate closure of eight nuclear plants in Germany, with the rest of the stations to be shut down by 2022.
read more... 02/01/2014