Monday, April 16, 2012



Japan eyes Mongolia for Asia ‘super grid’ plans

by Sophie Vorrath

One year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered nuclear disaster in Fukushima – and a nuclear rethink in Tokyo – a Japanese renewables advisory group has come up with a radical plan that would allow the country to import electricity from neighbouring countries.
The group is the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF) – a research outfit set up last year in the wake of the Fukushima disaster; and its radical proposal – which would require changes to Japanese law for it to be implemented – is the creation of an Asian "super-grid," that would transport wind and solar energy from Mongolia to Japan.

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