Japan currently only generates 0.3% of its energy with geothermal, although renewable energy advocates in the country believe that the country sits on the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors’ worth–that’s 20,000 MW–of geothermal energy. Granted, not all of that geothermal potential...

Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami–and the resulting disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The nation of Japan has turned to renewable energy sources en mass in the 12 months after the disaster (read more about that here, here and here). In...

A new housing trend has taken hold in Japan: solar-apartments. Following the earthquake last year that lead to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, many households experienced the intermittent electricity. Since then, solar energy has become a popular new trend for housing developers. New housing...