Japan to make renewables top power source by 2040

Resource-poor Japan "will aim to maximize the use of renewable energy as our main source of power", according to the draft Strategic Energy Plan.

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The same old trope again and again.

Japan has heaps of tidal power and currents and just a few meters under the ground, in many areas of Japan, concentrated geothermal energy.

Not a chance , the old men in power have no clue

empty talk,zero chance

T.I.J./this is Japan/

The answer is so simple, to all, except to those fossils in the Parliament.

Just modernise the existing nuclear plants. They can provide all the energy required and some. The latest reactors are extremely safe and they don't use highly radioactive materials. The spent fuel can also be recycled safely.

Or give 90% cost allowance to all houses so we can put solars on the roof.

Easy peasy Japanezee.

Geopolitical concerns affecting energy lines, from the Ukraine war to Middle East unrest, were also behind the shift to renewables and nuclear, it said.

Lots of (actual) strategic planners saw it coming, its mentioned in documents from 2007 from US top brass released by Wikileaks, but most were surprised when Russia actually invaded Ukraine. Israel was cleared surprised by October 7, which was an abject defensive failure, to the point where you would almost think they let it happen to allow escalation (clear conspiracy theory territory),

There is lots of potential for more surprises to come, "unknown unknowns" to use the Rumsfeld expression.

30% of total power by 2030 is reachable with government action now.

Stating the obvious (again), but decades late.

Sad to see that they want to join this collective insanity.

Renewable energy is already past the point of profit margin. Anyone thinking otherwise is just a shill of big oil or an idiot, non-specifically. If you think otherwise, look up who has the largest deployment of solar farms in the USA. Hint, it's Texas, the home of all the major climate and child support denier billionaires.

Sad to see that they want to join this collective insanity.

Sad that you joined it long ago.

When should we start to prepare for life without fossil fuels?

Last year Japan spent about $500 million a day importing dirty hydrocarbons. That alone is a strong motivator for developing renewables. "Resource poor" Japan has plenty of sunshine, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy potential. The famous Japanese ingenuity should be put to work making Japan a clean energy producer.

We put solar panels on our roof six years ago, and they have already paid for themselves. If we ever get an EV or a plug-in hybrid, a couple more solar panels would replace most of our trips to the gas station.

Just remember that petroleum or crude oil is not only used to power machines, heat up power plants or simmilar.

Japan is 3rd country in the world for plastic production and industrial oils and lubricants. How do you think those are produced from?

wallace

30% of total power by 2030 is reachable with government action now.

....and you want to introduce 30% chaotic, unpredictable energy into the power grid of an industrial nation why exactly? To "save the planet" perhaps? Even if you believe he CO2 global warming narrative, do you realize that China is right now building more new coal-fired plants than are in operation in the entire EU, last but not least to provide power to their industry to build all those solar panels and giant windmill generators that are needed for the EU "green" agenda? Talk about absurdity.

DanteKH

The answer is so simple, to all, except to those fossils in the Parliament.

Just modernise the existing nuclear plants. They can provide all the energy required and some. The latest reactors are extremely safe and they don't use highly radioactive materials. The spent fuel can also be recycled safely.

Exactly. For example, the Canadian "Candu" design is not experimental, it is in operation right now and can be built as is. These reactors are inherently safe and have never had an accident.

SomeWeeb

Renewable energy is already past the point of profit margin. Anyone thinking otherwise is just a shill of big oil or an idiot, non-specifically. If you think otherwise, look up who has the largest deployment of solar farms in the USA. Hint, it's Texas, the home of all the major climate and child support denier billionaires.

A quick lookup shows that Texas does indeed subsidize windmills and toxic solar panels. Pretty easy to go past the point of profit margin if your profit comes from tax payers. And please explain how Texas wants to deal with nights without wind?

In Germany, where the green government has been hyper-active, they have to deal with this now. They have to max out their power plants and push Norway and France to sell them more electricity because their wonderful "green" installations sometimes for days produce.... Nothing. Rather consuming power, like the windmills in the Northern Sea that need electricity to heat the oil in their motors and the windmill blades (to prevent icing) while standing still....

China has the greatest number of solar panels in the world. China has the largest solar capacity in the world, with 609,921 MW installed.  China installed 77.1 GW of wind power last year, accounting for 65% of the global total.

Renewable energy is not chaotic unpredictable energy. In 2023, renewable energy accounted for 22.3% of Japan's total electricity consumption. This was up from 20.5% in 2022.

In 2023, renewable energy sources generated more than 30% of the world's electricity. That is twice the amount generated by nuclear energy.

Since 2012, Apple DATA centers have been powered by 100% renewable energy.