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Japan Restarts Major Nuclear Reactor, Easing Natural Gas Imports and Supporting Energy Policy

March 3, 2026 Energi Staff

Japan’s long-paused nuclear power sector took a meaningful step forward in early 2026 with the restart of Unit 6 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, marking the return to service of one of the country’s [Read more]

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Japan’s energy policies aim for increased zero-carbon electricity generation

May 2, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 2, 2o24. By Victoria Zaretskaya, Jonathan Russo, Slade Johnson Over the last several years, the Japanese government has announced energy policies aimed to [Read more]

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Nuclear reactor restarts in Japan have reduced LNG imports for electricity generation

February 8, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Feb. 8. 2024. Principal contributors: Slade Johnson, Jonathan Russo, Victoria Zaretskaya Data visualization: Jonathan Russo After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, Japan suspended operations at all of [Read more]

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Japanese refineries close as the country’s petroleum consumption falls

December 14, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Dec. 13, 2023. By Jeff Barron In our Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast the lowest annual petroleum consumption in Japan in 2024 since at least [Read more]

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Nuclear reactor restarts in Japan displace LNG imports in 2019

March 4, 2019 Energi Staff

Japanese LNG imports are declining as the country brings back online more of its nuclear reactors that were shut down after the 2011 Fukushima accident.  Tokyo Electric Power photo. Japan’s LNG imports could fall as [Read more]

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Active participation of women essential to the global energy transformation – IRENA

June 11, 2018 Markham Hislop

Women’s thought process, ideas and feelings maybe different from men but that’s  exactly what work place needs: a wide range of views By 2050, IRENA projects that there will be around 40 million jobs directly related to renewable [Read more]

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by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Find Energi Media journalism in video, audio, and essays YouTube Channel: Video energy news Substack Essays: Thoughtful Energy Journalism Energi Talks Audio Podcast Real story of this energy crisis is not supply disruption, but demand [Read more]

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