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【News】J-POWER plans to retire Takasago Thermal Power in FY2028
On October 31, 2025, J-POWER announced the decommissioning plan of inefficient aged Units 1 and 2 at the Takasago Thermal Power Station by the end of fiscal year 2028.
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【News】Health Impacts and Economic Losses Caused by Climate Change
Climate change-induced extreme weather events are causing significant damage to the health, livelihoods, societies, and economies of people worldwide. Here we picked up 2 reports.
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【Database Update】Latest status of coal-fired power plants (Nov. 1, 2025)
This is the JBC database update. J-POWER officially announced that it shut down 2 units at the Takasago Coal-Fired Thermal Power Station by the end of FY2028.
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【News】Check FoE Japan’s New CCS Animation Videos
FoE Japan has released two animation videos to inform the issue of CCS. Check them to learn what are the problems of “dream” technology.
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【News】Different Approaches to Coal Phase-Out: The 34th Clean Coal Day International Symposium
The 34th Clean Coal Day International Symposium on September 4 and the Energy Security with Decarbonization Symposium 2025 on September 5.
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【News】Mazda canceled “Ammonia Mono-firing Power Plant” Plan
Mazda ditches ammonia plans at Hiroshima coal power plant. The company aims to switch from coal-fired power to a cogeneration system using city gas by 2030.
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【Database Update】Latest status of coal-fired power plants (Oct. 1, 2025)
Event Attribution analysis pointed that Japan’s record high temperatures in late July are due to the effects of global warming. However, coal-fired power plants, major sources of global warming, show no sign of phase-out.
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【News】CCS Can Safely Store 10 Times Less Carbon than Previously Thought
A study published in Nature stated that the global carbon storage capacity is 10 times less than the amount fossil fuel companies claim can be processed by CCS.
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【Database Update】 Latest status of coal-fired power plants (Sep. 1, 2025)
Sumitomo Osaka Cement announced that it will suspend operations at the coal-fired power plant located within its Ako Plant by the end of fiscal year 2026.
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【News】Tunnel planned to transport CO2 for Tokyo area CCS project
The project, known as the “Metropolitan Area CCS Project,” is the plan to transport CO2 across the Boso Peninsula and being steadily advanced without public knowledge.
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【News】JERA’s market manipulation left unresolved? Stronger regulations needed to prevent misconduct
In November 2024, JERA received a recommendation on its market manipulation of the wholesale electricity market. What has happened since then? Has JERA gotten a penalty?
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【News】Scorching Summers and Coal-Fired Power Generation: What Will Ammonia Co-firing Bring to Our Lives?
Japan Beyond Coal will hold its 5th Anniversary Symposium. This time, JBC will focus on the issues of ammonia co-firing, which is being promoted to maintain coal-fired power generation.
