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Japan cuts solar power purchase price

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan
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  • March 18 2013

On March 12, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced the price Japan's electric utilities must pay independent solar power

Japanese PM visits WH

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • February 24 2013

President Obama hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe February 22 for bilateral talks on Japan's territorial disputes with China, North Korea's

Japan’s solar price to reduce

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan
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  • January 27 2013

In response to rapidly declining equipment prices, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, said January 21 that the

Japan roundtable

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • October 21 2012

The Department of Commerce and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry will hold a roundtable December 3 in conjunction with the Department of Energy’s Energy Policy Dialogue

US-Japan RE dialogue

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • October 14 2012

The International Trade Administration will lead a delegation of U.S. companies to participate in a Renewable Energy Policy Business Roundtable December 3-7 in Tokyo in conjunction with the U.S.-Japan Energy Policy Dialogue. Following the roundtable, the delegation will travel to the northeast region for site visits

Japanese energy plan

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan
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  • September 23 2012

Japan’s Cabinet indefinitely deferred September 19 the approval of a long-term energy and environment policy that would have phased out nuclear power, deciding instead to examine and review national energy programs as necessary

Japanese energy and environment policy

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan
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  • September 16 2012

Galvanized by last year’s nuclear accident, Japan’s Energy and Environment Council adopted a new policy September 14 promising to eliminate nuclear power by the 2030’s and to significantly increase the use of renewable energy

Japan plans for new energy conservation standards

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan
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  • August 26 2012

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and its Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry are preparing new energy conservation standards for buildings with the goal of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions

WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • China, European Union, Global, Japan, USA
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  • July 15 2012

The European Union, Japan, and the United States placed July 13 a second request on the World Trade Organization’s July 23 Dispute Settlement Body agenda asking the organization to establish a dispute panel to rule whether China’s restrictions on rare earths exports violate global trade rules

Japanese RE encouragement

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan
  • -
  • June 24 2012

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced June 18 above-market rates to be paid for geothermal, solar, and wind power under long-term purchase contracts starting July 1 to encourage more power production from renewable sources