Japan's renewable energy options: costs and potential

Japan's renewable energy options: costs and potential Washington Post (blog) Japan's shutdown of all its nuclear power plants leaves it with an energy gap, mostly being made up through greater use of costly imported LNG, coal and oil. Below are some details of the resource-scarce country's “green energy” options. Anxious Japan prepares for life without nuclear power The Guardian On Saturday, when the Hokkaido electric power company shuts down the No3 reactor at its Tomari plant for maintenance, the world's third-largest economy will be without a single working nuclear reactor for the first time for almost 50 years. Its last nuclear reactor going offline, Japan takes tentative steps toward ... Washington Post TOKYO — Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor. The last of the country's 50 usable nuclear reactors will be switched off Saturday, completely idling a power source ... Japanese energy policy stands at a crossroads The Guardian Japan will close its last nuclear power plant on Saturday, at least temporarily. Before the Fukushima disaster in 2011, there were 54 reactors providing one-third of the country's electricity. The unprecedented speed and extent of Japan's current ...