at over $200,000
and shipment will be made
in March.
trapping
gas, rose 1.1%
10.2%
The pipeline
project
wells, a reservoir,
consists
main
station
and main control
power
six repeaters
pipeline.
a booster
project
NASDA tests satellite
the modules
cover nearly
the entire
Each of the 765 paneh
900 mm. This is the first time that PV modules
of the
have covered
such a large area in Japan.
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The National
the
Japan (NASDA) has full-scale tested a Tsubasa
module
desert to the city of Qurayat.
experimental
equivalent
to the
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H-2A rocket.
households.
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gene&on:
the use of natural
180km
Japanese power retailers sell new energy
Initial
Ministry
and Industry retailers
(METI)
from
amounts
of Economy,
testing
2003
to
sell
of energy generated
by solar, wind
and other renewable sources,
according
to a
watched
to see how they will function
METI
aims
submit,
to obrain
cabinet
to the ongoing measures
power utilities,
approval
Diet session,
to
a bill on
for the use of new energy ministry
The planned
oficials
legislation
by
said.
is aimed
suppiy
to 3.2%
efforts
to attain
in fiscal 2010,
as part of Japan’s
its greenhouse
gas reduction
Requiring
an annual
pany, the ministry
use
target
set by each com-
will urge or order failing firms
to meet these targets
and fine them
up to Ylm
if they fail to comply. retailers,
increase
which
types
sunlight,
of
other
energy
terrestrial
than
estimates
to
will be required
renewable
wind,
‘sources
heat,
sources: water
oil’ - presumed
to
and
as biomass
and waste. METI energy
use in the coming
for annual
will
electricity
effective
The
their
targets
new energy
from
as MET1
energy 1997
government
other
passing
radiation
The
been
satellite,
placed
through
in
is 10 times greater
geostationary
orbit.
Testing
Japanese
construction
than in
continues
way
to
clean
soil, using bacteria
general
the
that
aim
and
by
oxygen
compressors. the
compressors helping
made
1,000
kwh
of
oil-
more data on the is to
market
plans
to ratify
that
this year,
the
requires
gases by 6% from
1990
in mineral carbon
Club, School
The
first
Evergreen
strain
oil and can
to
nutrients and
air
aeration.
using
solar
The panels,
to save costs.
Photovoltaic system award Kobe Steel’s photovoltaic
the New Energy Foundation
Chairman
Kawasaki
installed
The second installed
Both
Photovoltaics Bulletin
of heat-
Kobe, western Japan.
were
(New Energy
Development Industrial
high The
school’s electricity and
jointly
funded
and Industrial
Organisation)
with
Technology
as
part
of
its
Use PV Field Test Program.
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Prize
Netherlands’ Nuon in three-way deal to solar
roof
80%
of the Half.
of
770 m2
at the school.
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roof
PV
in the Prefecture
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systems
NED0
basis.
is one of the largest
at a school
of the
air
pumping.
the system on a turnkey
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as the latest data show CO, consumption,
sprinkler
part
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from energy
water
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Minami
that will reduce
bill for lighting,
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Yamaguchi
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US. It was
of PV modufes to the walls and
of the Dai-Ichi
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on the clubhouse
Chiba.
application
period. measures
City, Chiha
incorporates
system
selected for the prize because of an innovative
energy
Kyoto
3037.
system has received
from the New Energy Foundation,
City,
clean electricity
and
generated
improve
are powered
conditioning,
air conditioning
system
Uji
in Yachiyo
club’s utility
in
For clay soils, slaked lime is mixed ground
the country
of
are activated
in
system
the
them with certain
Co Ltd,
has delivered and
Solar’s PV panels
over
a sprinkler
Kinki Co Ltd.
Prefecture, Japan.
necessary,
Enhanced
Homes
Construction
and a 70 kW PV system to Yachiyo
bioremediation
soil, the bacteria
using
as a
sites.
dioxide
To perform
is
a 20 kW PV rooftop system to
are
levels in the 20082012
Misawa
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systems
makes use of a natural
oil into
the
firms
helps cut
Kawasaki delivers
Shoin High
generated. pact
energy
tpa. The building
Boeki, and Kobe Steel received
Eco-Tech
Prefecture,
generators,
certificates,
from
of 25 electric
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Uji
still needs to
old industrial
thrive
course of months. contaminated
the order through
commissioned
and solar
to petrochemical-related
Ueki’s technique
decompose
contractor
tests and collect but
of bacteria
owned by Minami
of 76 kW,
requirements
by 10 metric
roof to generate
The midsize
technology
power
output
Evergreen Solar’s Japanese marketing partner,
group, Ueki Corp has
a low-cost
contaminated
run outdoor
output
has a total
Kawasaki Heavy Industries,
developed
technique,
CO,
system
an
the Van Allen
Bioremediation by solar powered compressors
into
either
retailers,
will issue
international
to cut greenhouse
however,
by each firm.
for two years, for every
renewable
for new
with their own facilities,
from
surplus
exchangeable
Japan
achieve
new energy
or buying
targets
eight years as the basis
target calculations
generating buying
normal
base. has
the soil by supplying will set the aggregate
Firms
kg,
means of redeveloping
METI
to 100 by FY 2010,
six
Belt, where
how
electricity
and will send the data to
ground
orbit
and
solar batteries’
consumes, 480
make
errors
generators.
target under the Kyoto protocol.
Power
memories
agency’s
elliptical
in space.
will keep track of how many
of the built-in
weighing
parts are being closely
at tripling
the fiscal I 999 ratio of new energy to total power
($8000)
the
are
for one year.
draft bili.
special
These
low-cost
memories
normally.
much
certain
the satellite’s
working
the semiconductor
plans to oblige power
FY
shows
semiconductor
The satellite
Trade
Agency of
satellite launched by its second
commercial
the sateliite The Japanese
Space Development
wall
is 1,035 mm by
the
of about
water
floors, surface.
and two top lights are
from the third to the ninth
from
a distance
brings
length
system covers three walls in a
wall arrangement
on the roof. Running
center. Solar panels will the
The PV module curtain
across
wells,
The
to stand
of 9 deep-water
powerhouse,
along
in FY 2000
above the fiscal 1990 level.
building
in
pay
production
exchange,
Green
Lake Metroparks
Mountain
Energy
of solar panel electricity
for at the
park agency’s Lake Farmpark in Kirtland.
April 2002