Fukushima

November 9, 2012

Even as GE and Siemens pull back, Hitachi pushes ahead in Nuclear Power with Horizon Buy

Hitachi Entering Nuclear Power The massive global backlash against nuclear energy has seen a number of top nuclear equipment manufactures like GE, Siemens, Toshiba pulling back. […]
November 1, 2012

Why are China and India obstinately pushing Nuclear Power despite Protests

Two Emerging Nuclear Giants – India & China The Fukushima disaster in Japan involving the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant had bought a nuclear winter for the […]
October 4, 2012

All Nuclear Power Plants in Europe are Unsafe – $32 billion required for Safety

Nuclear Power which supplies more than 15% of the world’s electricity is doing a serious examination of its benefits compared to the massive risks. Nuclear Advantages […]
August 16, 2012

Best Strategy to Enter the Japanese Market – Joint Ventures and Alliance with Locally Connected Companies

Japan Entering the Japanese market is notoriously hard for foreign companies as they run into major implicit and explicit barriers. Like the Chinese, the Japanese have […]
August 14, 2012

Energy Colossus – General Electric says that Nuclear Reactors no longer Economically Viable as Natural Gas and Solar Energy Prices Plummet

Nuclear Energy As the whole world is fixated on the debate about on using and not using nuclear power for energy generation, the anti-nuclear protestors have […]
August 1, 2012

Indian Nuclear Accidents remain Shrouded in Secrecy and Opacity

One of the crowning achievements (if you can call that) of the current Government in India was the pact with USA which removed India from the […]
July 25, 2012

Japanese Solar Inverter Companies in a sweet spot as Domestic Market set to Boom and JET Certification provides Barrier against Imports

Japanese Solar Inverters While Japanese solar panel companies are sweating due to cheap Asian solar panel imports, the solar inverter companies in Japan are facing the […]
July 25, 2012

170,000 Sayonara Nukes Supporters protest Japanese Nuclear Power – How long before the Government caves in to Popular Will

Nuclear Energy Massive protests in Germany post Fukushima had forced the German Government to shut down all its nuclear energy reactors and focus on green energy. […]
July 19, 2012

Why China keep on Increasing its Solar Capacity Targets?

Solar Capacity in  China China has repeatedly increased the Solar capacity targets since the last one year as solar panel prices have crashed making solar power […]
July 3, 2012

Even as Fukushima Cooling System Fails, Japanese Authorities restart Ohi Nuclear Plant in face of Massive Protests

Japanese Government Gave the go ahead in restarting the nuclear power plants in the country after all the nuclear reactors were shut down post the Fukushima […]
June 29, 2012

Solar Demand in Japan to explode with IRR of 30%, as Government sets crazily high Tariff of 53c/KwH, implicit barriers may keep Chinese out

Japan after the Fukushima disaster had set out on a plan to increase the share of renewable energy in the electricity mix which is abysmally low. […]